China confirms 17.8GW PV target for 2015

China has confirmed its installation target of 17.8GW for 2015.

The National Energy Administration (NEA) has published province by province figures that also confirm that it has done away with the distributed generation (DG) targets introduced last year.

The government had a 14GW target with 8GW initially to come from DG. Each province was given a two-part target for utility scale and DG but ultimately the latter proved hard to meet. Despite efforts mid-way through the year to remove red tape for DG projects, it is expected that the final results will fall well short of the ambitious goal.

	Areas	New installations in 2015 (MW)	Notes
Total	Nationwide	17,800
1	Hebei	1200	300MW dedicated to poverty-relief programs in pilot counties
2	Shanxi	650	200MW dedicated to poverty-relief programs in pilot counties
3	Inner Mongolia	800
4	Liaoning	300
5	Jilin	300
6	Heilongjiang	300
7	Jiangsu	1000
8	Zhejiang	1000
9	Anhui	1000	400MW dedicated to poverty-relief programs in pilot counties
10	Fujian	400
11	Jiangxi	600
12	Shangdong	800
13	He'nan	400
14	Hubei	500
15	Hu'nan	400
16	Guangdong	900
17	Guangxi	350
18	Hainan	200
19	Sichuan	600
20	Guizhou	200
21	Yunnan	600
22	Shaanxi	800
23	Gansu	500	250MW dedicated to poverty-relief programs in pilot counties
24	Qinghai	1000	150MW dedicated to poverty-relief programs in pilot counties
25	Ningxia	1000	200MW dedicated to poverty-relief programs in pilot counties
26	Xinjiang	1300
	Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps	500

The new release of the figures also confirmed that there will be no cap on Beijing, Tianjing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Tibet “providing no solar energy abandoning cases happen”.