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Published on: November 19, 2018

Original title: 2018年前三季度风电并网运行情况
Links: Source document (in Chinese) (link).

In the first three quarters of 2018, China's newly installed capacity of PV was 34.54 GW, down 19.7% on the same period last year. Of this, 17.4 GW was utility scale PV power plants, down 37.2% on the same period last year；newly installed capacity of distributed PV was 17.14 GW, an increase of 12% on the same period last year.。

By the end of September, total nationwide PV power generation capacity reached 164.74 GW, of which 117.94 GW of utility-scale PV power plants, and 46.80 GW distributed PV。PV power generation in the first three quarters was 133.83 TWh, an increase of 56.2% on the same period last year；the curtailment rate of PV was 2.9%, down 2.7 percentage points on the same period last year。The curtailment occurred mainly in Xinjiang and Gansu, with 1.73 TWh curtailed in Xinjiang (excluding XPCC), at a curtailment rate of 16%, down 5.4 percentage points on the same period last year；a further 780 GWh of PV was curtailed in Gansu, at a curtailment rate of 10%, down 11 percentage points on the same period last year。

In terms of regional installations, newly added capacity in North China was 8,424 MW, down 17.9 percent on the same period last year, accounting for 24.4% of national newly installed capacity；Northeast China added 2,873 MW, down 10.4 percent on the same period last year, accounting for 8.3% of national newly installed capacity；East China added 8,582 MW, down 28.2 percent on the same period last year, accounting for 24.8% of national newly installed capacity；Central China added 5,872 MW, down 35.5 percent on the same period last year, accounting for 17% of national newly installed capacity；Northwest China added 4,789 MW, down 16.2 percent on the same period last year, accounting for 13.9% of national newly installed capacity；South China added 4,011 MW, up 44.2 percent on the same period last year, accounting for 11.6% of national newly installed capacity。Distributed PV continued maintain rapid growth over the first three quarters of 2018, with circa 2,000 MW of newly added capacity in each of the provinces of Shandong, Zhejiang, Henan and Jiangsu. The newly added capacity of distributed PV in these four provinces accounted for 49.1% of newly added capacity nationwide。

For detailed statistics on national PV installation statistics by province (autonomous region, municipality), see the Annex。

[map added by China Energy Portal]

Annex：

2018 Q3 National PV statistics

Province (autonomous region, municipality)	Cumulative installed capacity (MW)		Newly installed capacity (MW)
		Of which：utility scale PV plants		Of which：utility scale PV plants
Total	164,740	117,940	34,540	17,400
Beijing	360	50	110	0
Tianjin	1,050	790	380	260
Hebei	11,270	7,920	2,590	1,310
Shanxi	8,040	6,480	2,140	1,180
Inner Mongolia	8,800	8,700	1,370	1,290
Liaoning	2,900	2,140	670	300
Jilin	2,010	1,410	420	330
Heilongjiang	1,950	1,370	1,010	660
Shanghai	850	60	270	40
Jiangsu	12,370	7,180	3,290	1,340
Zhejiang	10,890	3,610	2,750	460
Anhui	10,690	6,540	1,810	880
Fujian	1,380	360	460	20
Jiangxi	5,260	2,900	760	130
Shandong	13,140	6,280	2,620	480
Henan	9,620	5,850	2,590	550
Hubei	5,040	3,310	900	280
Hunan	2,710	1,170	950	320
Guangdong	4,940	2,630	1,620	700
Guangxi	1,090	860	400	230
Hainan	1,000	870	670	600
Chongqing	420	390	300	280
Sichuan	1,720	1,610	370	350
Guizhou	1,810	1,720	440	370
Yunnan	3,200	3,080	870	800
Tibet	890	890	100	100
Shaanxi	6,170	5,440	930	680
Gansu	8,040	7,770	190	110
Qinghai	9,550	9,460	1,650	1,610
Ningxia	7,860	7,370	1,660	1,490
Xinjiang	9,350	9,340	270	260
XPCC	390	390	0	0

Note：1.The above statistics do not include Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan；
2.Data source：National Renewable Energy Center。