China added more than 51GW of small-scale solar power last year, compared to Eskom’s total installed capacity of 53.7GW.
On the rooftop of his home beside green onion and wheat fields in China’s Shaanxi province, Li Lifeng has installed dozens of solar panels that glisten in the winter sun.
Roughly one of every five panels installed worldwide in 2022 was fixed atop a Chinese home or business.about an hour outside of Xi’an in central China. The government is already constructing vast wind and solar farms in the country’s sparsely-populated inland deserts, but the infrastructure needed to connect them to the megacities of central and eastern China is costly and not fully built.
Cities were encouraged to cover almost a third of commercial buildings and a fifth of farmhouses in panels by the end of 2023, setting off an unprecedented boom in small-scale solar installations. Chinese businesses are also facing increased pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions, both from their own government and foreign clients seeking to decarbonize their supply chains amid growing investor scrutiny.
The panels were installed by Jinze Power Group, a solar equipment retailer and project constructor whose distributed solar business doubled in both 2021 and 2022.
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