This is the second cut in subsidies in less than a year.
China manufacturing solar panels subsidy.
It found that chinese solar panel manufacturers had only about a one percent cost advantage if subsidies were excluded and would actually have exceeded the cost of us made panels by 5.
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.
China is the world s largest market for both photovoltaics and solar thermal energy since 2013 china has been the world s leading installer of solar photovoltaics pv.
In december 2017 the distributed solar subsidy fell from 0 42 yuan per kilowatt hour to 0 37 yuan.
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.
In the space of 25 years china will have gone from having virtually no solar panels to leading the world by a margin of more than 100.
A surge in exports of chinese panels.
Since 2008 through government subsidies the manufacturing capacity of china s solar panel industry grew tenfold leading to a vast global oversupply.