China studies policies and measures to promote healthy development of PV industry

CHINA: Premier Wen Jiabao chaired a State Council executive meeting on the 19th, the research to determine policies and measures to promote the healthy development of the photovoltaic industry.

The Conference believes that the rapid development of photovoltaic industry in China in recent years, has formed a relatively complete photovoltaic manufacturing industry system. The main question is: serious excess capacity, the market over-reliance on external demand, companies generally operating difficulties.

The meeting stressed that the photovoltaic industry is a strategic emerging industries. Development of photovoltaic industry to adjust the energy structure, promote energy production and consumption patterns change, and promote the construction of ecological civilization is of great significance.

China's photovoltaic industry is currently experiencing difficulties, both the industry is facing severe challenges, but also the opportunity to promote industrial adjustment and upgrading, especially the cost of photovoltaic power generation dropped significantly, provided favorable conditions for the expansion of the domestic market.

To improve policies and measures in accordance with the innovation and institutional mechanisms to expand the consumer market, and standardize the market order, promoting industrial restructuring, to reduce the cost of power generation of ideas, balanced, comprehensive facilities strategy, efforts to enhance industrial competitiveness.

The meeting identified the following policy measures: (a) to accelerate industrial restructuring and technological progress. Make the best use of the market "Forced mechanism to encourage corporate mergers and acquisitions, eliminate backward production capacity, improve technology and equipment level. Strict control of simple expansion of production capacity of polysilicon, photovoltaic cells and modules in the new project. (B) of to standardize industrial development order.

To strengthen the coordination of the photovoltaic power generation planning and supporting grid planning, the establishment of a simple and efficient grid service system. Establish a sound system of technical standards, strengthen market supervision, the key equipment to implement mandatory testing and certification system. (C) actively explore the domestic photovoltaic applications market.

Efforts to promote distributed photovoltaic power generation, to encourage the installation of units, communities and families, and the use of photovoltaic power generation system, orderly construction of photovoltaic power plants. To strengthen international cooperation to consolidate and expand the international market. (D) the perfect support policy.

Development of photovoltaic power plants subregion Internet benchmark price reasonable reduction in feed-in tariff in accordance with the policies of the electricity subsidies, according to the changes in cost and subsidy standards, the implementation of distributed photovoltaic power generation based on resource conditions.

Perfect central finance to support the the photovoltaic development of mechanisms, the same preferential VAT policies for PV power plant project implementation and wind power. (E) to give full play to the role of market mechanisms to reduce government intervention to prohibit local protection. Improve the electricity pricing mechanism and subsidies effect evaluation mechanism, to improve the effect of policies.

Play the role of industry organizations, strengthen self-discipline, and guide the healthy development of industry. The meeting asked the departments to pay close attention to the development of the perfect supporting policies put in place.