Xiliuhe Solar Power Station

Can small-scale photovoltaic power stations be installed in China?

This study re-estimated the installed potential of centralized large-scale and distributed small-scale photovoltaic power stations in 449 prefecture-level cities in China based on a geographic information system and Google Earth Engine combined with Baidu map data and related geographic information data.

When is China's first hybrid energy photovoltaic power station fully operational?

China's first hybrid energy photovoltaic power station using both solar and tidal power in Wenling City of east China's Zhejiang Province is fully operational, May 30, 2022. /CFP

Where are PV power stations located in China?

It should also be noted that with the rapid development of China’s PV industry, increasingly more eastern provinces built large-scale PV power stations, including Jiangsu, Anhui and Shandong Province. Areas of PV power stations for each province of China.

Does China have a spatial map of PV power stations?

Although some researchers released several PV power station maps, most only met a medium resolution of 30 meters 9, 10. There thus still lacks a national map of China’s PV power stations with a higher spatial resolution (i.e., 10 meters) that could provide a global understanding of PV’s spatial deployment patterns.

Can centralized large-scale PV power plants be developed in China?

For example, the China renewable energy industry development report 2018 , which assessed the potential of centralized large-scale PV power plants, found only 5% of the area of one land use type, Gobi, to be developed. However, the suitability of other geographical and resource environment conditions was not considered.

How many ground-mounted PV power stations are there in China?

According to our dataset, China has a total of 2467.7 km 2 ground-mounted PV power stations in 2020. The top three largest provinces refer to Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai, whose PV area ratio are 14.92%, 12.49% and 11.26%, respectively, with a total of nearly 40% of all the PV power stations of China.