{"id":17897,"date":"2014-09-04T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=17897"},"modified":"2014-09-04T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:41:45","slug":"chinese-solar-panel-production-to-double-by-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/chinese-solar-panel-production-to-double-by-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Solar Panel Production to Double by 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/chinese-solar-production.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17903\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/chinese-solar-production.jpg\" alt=\"chinese solar production\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/chinese-solar-production.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/chinese-solar-production-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By J. Matthew Roney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China installed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthpolicy.org\/indicators\/C47\/solar_power_2014\" target=\"_blank\">world record<\/a> amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2014\/06\/china-solar-power-record-2013\/\">solar photovoltaics (PV) capacity in 2013<\/a>. While this was the first time the country was the number one installer, China has led all countries in making PV for the better part of a decade. China now accounts for 64 percent of global solar panel production\u2014churning out 25,600 megawatts of the nearly 40,000 megawatts of PV made worldwide in 2013\u2014according to data from GTM Research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 407px; height: 344px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthpolicy.org\/images\/uploads\/graphs_tables\/highlights47_ChinaModules.PNG\" alt=\"Annual Solar Photovoltaics Module Production in China, 2007-2013, with Projection to 2017\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five of the top 10 solar panel manufacturing firms in 2013\u2014including <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2014\/08\/13\/yingli-solar-reaches-10-gw-global-solar-pv-module-delivery-milestone\/\">Yingli at the top<\/a> and runner-up Trina\u2014were Chinese companies. Coming in third was Canadian Solar, which produces 90 percent of its modules in China. Two Japanese companies and one each from the United States and Germany rounded out the top 10. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthpolicy.org\/datacenter\/xls\/highlights47_2.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\">See data<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>As demand for increasingly affordable solar power continues to climb around the world, GTM Research projects that Chinese solar panel output per year will double to 51,000 megawatts by 2017, representing close to 70 percent of global production at that time. Beijing no doubt had such a quick industry ramp-up in mind when in May 2014 it announced a new national PV capacity goal: 70,000 megawatts of installed PV by 2017, up from 18,300 megawatts at the end of 2013. To put that in perspective, if it meets that goal China will add more solar electricity-generating capacity in four years than the entire world had in place in early 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information, see the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthpolicy.org\/indicators\/C47\" target=\"_blank\">Solar Indicator<\/a> from Earth Policy Institute, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthpolicy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.earth-policy.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2017, Chinese solar panel production will double its annual production of PV to 51,000 megawatts, or almost 70% of global output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":17903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[273,7177,7178,503,3281,52,1958,155,7176],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - 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