China’s energy authority yesterday unveiled its solar power development targets for 2014, vowing to install 13 gigawatts of new capacity this year.
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Wu Xinxiong, head of the National Energy Administration, said it will strive to secure the target by supporting the development of distributed solar power generation.
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The goal is more ambitious than the State Council guideline released in July last year, which outlined plans to install 10GW of solar power capacity annually in the 2013-15 period.
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To boost the nation’s sagging solar power sector, China has turned to distributed power generation and rolled out a string of preferential policies.
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Wu said the NEA is considering new measures but did not give details.
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He also encouraged local governments to further facilitate the development of distributed solar power generation.Â