This is the second cut in subsidies in less than a year.
China manufacturing solar panels subsidy.
In 2015 china became the world s largest producer of photovoltaic power narrowly surpassing germany.
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.
In december 2017 the distributed solar subsidy fell from 0 42 yuan per kilowatt hour to 0 37 yuan.
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 proposed to halve its subsidy budget for new solar power projects this year to 1 5 billion yuan 216 million as the government steers its renewable energy sector away from a reliance on.
In 2017 china was the first country to pass 100 gw of cumulative installed pv capacity and by the end of 2018 it had 174.
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.
A surge in exports of chinese panels.