Since 2008 through government subsidies the manufacturing capacity of china s solar panel industry grew tenfold leading to a vast global oversupply.
China manufacturing solar panels subsidy.
In december 2017 the distributed solar subsidy fell from 0 42 yuan per kilowatt hour to 0 37 yuan.
In 2015 china became the world s largest producer of photovoltaic power narrowly surpassing germany.
Wood mackenzie estimates from market intelligence business wood mackenzie sees china s photovoltaic panel installations hit a cumulative total of 370 gwdc by 2024 more than double the us s.
China proposed to halve its subsidy budget for new solar power projects this year to 1 5 billion yuan 216 million as the government steers its renewable energy sector away from a reliance on.
In 2017 china was the first country to pass 100 gw of cumulative installed pv capacity and by the end of 2018 it had 174.
A surge in exports of chinese panels.
The new policy has dropped those subsidies to 0 50 0 60 and 0 70 yuan per kilowatt hour across the three regions with the distributed solar subsidy falling to 0 32 yuan per kilowatt hour.
This is the second cut in subsidies in less than a year.