Chinese pv industry brief: January-november pv installations hit 163.8 gw

China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) says the nation installed 163 GW of solar in the first 10 months of this year, bringing it to nearly 560 GW of cumulative installed PV capacity by the end of November.

China's NEA said the nation's cumulative installed PV capacity reached 560 GW at the end of November. In the first 11 months of this year, the country added 163.88 GW of new PV systems, with 21.32 GW deployed in November alone. New solar power installations hit 78.42 GW in China at the end of June.

The China Photovoltaic Industry Association (CPIA), meanwhile, said it expects newly PV capacity for 2023 to reach 180 GW. The association attributed this higher-than-expected growth to the flourishing utility-scale market, where numerous large-scale national wind-solar-storage power projects are expected to be grid-connected soon.