Photovoltaic rural-to-rural policies force trillions of rural markets

State Council Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on the 12th that the country will combine urbanization construction, adopt measures such as encouraging the application of solar power generation equipment, supporting distributed generation and grid connection, and increase domestic market development efforts.

According to a report by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the authoritative sources learned that in response to the country’s call, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is leading a plan to develop a theme “Photovoltaic to the countryside”, aiming to promote large-scale solar photovoltaic power generation into the rural market and take the future of urbanization. "Flying." In addition, since the second half of this year, the intensive policies formulated by relevant ministries and commissions to support the healthy development of the photovoltaic industry have been summarized as a national-level guidance, which is expected to be issued in the near future.

It is understood that at present, the area of ​​agricultural sheds standardized throughout the country amounts to 50 million mu. If all photovoltaic integrated systems are built, it will drive a market of 250 billion yuan. Photovoltaic greenhouses are only a small part of the photovoltaics go to the countryside market. In the vast rural areas, more promising places are on the roofs of residents. In a comprehensive view, the potential market application of photovoltaic power generation in rural areas can reach more than 1 trillion yuan.

According to authoritative estimates, by 2015, China's photovoltaic power generation capacity is expected to exceed 50 million kilowatts. This will increase more than 15 times on the basis of 3 million kilowatts at the end of 2011. To achieve such a large-scale leap, it means that the domestic PV market must be diversified. State Councillor ** recently pointed out during the discussion with the five ministries and commissions in Jiangsu that the fundamental way out for the domestic market is to open up the terminal market.

The key to the development of the terminal market is to broaden the application of downstream photovoltaic power plants. In this regard, relevant ministries and commissions have made continuous efforts since the second half of the year: the National Energy Administration announced the initiation of a 15 GW demonstration area for distributed photovoltaic power generation, and the Ministry of Finance announced a new batch of “Golden Sun” demonstration projects that have been implemented for nearly 3 years. Scale expansion to more than 3 million kilowatts.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has been intensively investigating the application of solar photovoltaic products in rural areas since May of this year. The survey found that in addition to the sporadic use of a few rural public institutions and rural villages in remote mountainous areas, rural areas are almost a “vacuum zone” for photovoltaic power generation. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology decided to take the lead in organizing a large-scale "PV to the countryside" program.

According to reports, the plan will rely on the “energy-saving products project” that has already been implemented in depth and will select batches of solar photovoltaic power generation products and enterprise catalogs that meet the market requirements in batches. Farmers and developers who use the products in the catalogue will receive state subsidies. In order to arouse the rural market demand for photovoltaic products.

In fact, in the current process of vigorously promoting urbanization and agricultural modernization in the country, photovoltaic rural areas are also expected to catch a “windward” car. Experts generally believe that green agriculture and circular agriculture are important means for the above-mentioned "twoizations." Large-scale application of photovoltaic products will play an important role in green agriculture and recycling agriculture.

Wang Shijiang stated that there are great prospects for the combination of photovoltaic and facility agriculture. However, for the development potential of the rural PV market, Wang Runchuan, manager of Solar Energy Supplier Relationship Management at JA Solar, expressed cautious optimism because the PV industry from upstream product manufacturing to professional power plant development and operation is now gathering in the urban and industrial area markets. Look to the countryside.

Wang Runchuan said that in terms of national policy orientation and the long-term development trend of the industry (Fang Yuan), the future battlefield will undoubtedly be rural. However, from the current stage, due to the absence of supporting subsidies for PV projects in the countryside and related supporting policies, companies lacking a clear investment return expectation in this area may not be able to achieve a climate in the short term.

Wang Runchuan pointed out that large-scale promotion of photovoltaic power generation in rural areas will face significant economic problems. He said that even if the cost of a simple family photovoltaic power plant is only a few thousand dollars, it still represents a significant expenditure for rural families with limited income levels. Moreover, this is only a one-time initial investment, and the current supporting maintenance service business is still a blank in many enterprises, not to mention deeper into rural areas. What is even more crucial is that due to the inability to fully self-use, excess electricity needs to be integrated into the local rural power grid. It also involves grid approval and technical barriers, and the issue of subsidy for electricity prices is more complicated.