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Title in national language: 
太阳能发电发展“十二五”规划
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2012
Effective Start Year: 
2012
Effective End Year: 
2015
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Plan/Strategy
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power
Energy Types: 
Power, Renewable, Solar
Issued by: 
National Energy Administration
Notes: 
No official English version available
Overall Summary: 
Solar Power Development 12th FYP is based on Renewable Energy Law, National Economic and Social Development 12th FYP, Energy Development 12th FYP and Renewable Energy Development 12th FYP. It elaborates guiding theories and fundamental principles of solar power development during China's 12th Five-Year Plan, makes development target clear, and brings out key construction focus. In general, it provides a sound basis to direct solar energy development in China.
Access
Energy access priorities: 
---On the basis of their reliability and stability of power supply and demand, to support and carry out projects of new energy micro-grid construction in offshore islands and other specific areas where population is concentrated in remote villages such as Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces.
Energy access action plan: 
Support dispersed users in remote areas through investment subsidies for electricity projects, to promote independent photovoltaic power plants, and household photovoltaic power generation systems to solve electricity problems in areas where the grid can not cover.
Consumer subsidies: 
Support dispersed users in remote areas through investment subsidies for electricity projects, to promote independent photovoltaic power plants, and household photovoltaic power generation systems to solve electricity problems in areas where the grid can not cover.
Renewable Energy
RE priorities: 
The general target is to continuously drive down solar power cost, enhance economic competitiveness and realize solar grid-parity as soon as possible through market mechanism and scale development. Establish appropriate policy system adapted to solar power development. -- Development principles include the following: Combine scale development with competitiveness improvement; combine centralized exploitation and distributional utilization; integrate market cultivation and development mode innovation, combine domestic development and international cooperation.
RE targets: 
By the end of 2015, solar power installed capacity reaches 21 GW and above, annual power generation reaches 250 TWh. In Central and East China prioritizes solar-and-buildings integrated distributional PV power system 10 GW; in North and West China (Qinghai, Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mogolia) where solar and land resources are both abundant, establish grid-connected PV power station 10 GW. Target for solar thermal power installed capacity is 1 GW by 2015. --By 2020, a total installed capacity to reach 50GW of industrial scale solar. --During the "12th Five-Year" period, construct 100 new energy demonstration cities and 1,000 new energy demonstration Industrial parks.
RE capital subsidy, grant, or rebate: 
Establish state-level subsidy mechanism based on market competition and gradually reduce unit energy subsidy. ---Support dispersed users in remote areas through investment subsidies for electricity projects, to promote independent photovoltaic power plants, and household photovoltaic power generation systems to solve electricity problems in areas where the grid can not cover.
Cooperation in RE: 
To carry out global technology research and development cooperation to encourage domestic enterprises and foreign enterprises to cooperate in the development of avant garde technology about solar energy, focusing on solar power application technology research and development, and solar power-related grid operation control technology research and development. To carry out energy research cooperation in solar power system integration design, solar energy resources evaluation, solar power generation forecasting technology with main energy institutions and enterprises in Europe and the United States. To strengthen the exchange and cooperation with international experts, supporting relevant scientific research institutes and enterprises to establish international experience and intelligence exchange mechanism, and cultivating high-level professional researcher manager in solar power field.
Environment
Energy-water nexus: 
Solar thermal stations consume large amount of water, by using air-cooling technology water consumption can be reduced to minimum level. Reasonable location to build solar power stations on untapped land in West China can help to reduce surface water evaporation, conducive to prevent and control desertification
Pricing
Renewable energy subsidies: 
Support dispersed users in remote areas through investment subsidies for electricity projects, to promote independent photovoltaic power plants, and household photovoltaic power generation systems to solve electricity problems in areas where the grid can not cover. ---Establish state-level subsidy mechanism based on market competition and gradually reduce unit energy subsidy.
Energy Supply and Infrastructure
Infrastructure development priorities: 
Carry out user-side distributional PV power system innovation, establish distributional power operation system based on smart grid.
Investment
Energy sector investment priorities: 
During 12th FYP total installed capacity of new added solar power PV station is around 10 GW, installed capacity of solar thermal power capacity is around 1 GW. Assume that investment of PV stations and distributional PV systems are 10,000 RMB and 15,000 RMB per kW, respectively, total investment amount is around 250 billion RMB.
Governance
Energy management principles: 
Gradually improve policy system and development mechanism. Improve solar power policy system and development mechanism together with power system reform and tariff mechanism reform, establish new market mechanism favoring distributional renewable energy development. ---Explore the establishment of renewable energy development for the power system operation and management model, through the new energy micro-network engineering and new energy demonstration city construction policy and development model innovation.
M&E of policy implementation: 
Strengthen operational monitoring assessment. Appoint technical management agencies to carry out evaluation for the launched solar power projects[...]. --[...]establish industrial monitoring system, to update the implementation of planning information, and to evaluate the mid-term assessment. According to the results of mid-term assessment, in accordance with the principles conducive to the development of solar power industry, plan and implement the rolling adjustment.
Statistics collection and management: 
Improve statistics' quality in the field of solar power industry, and formulate the monitoring system.
Technology
Clean energy technology priorities: 
Significantly improve industry competitiveness. Make progress for PV cell basic research and technology innovation, establish a comprehensive industry chain including materials, production equipment, system integration and ancillary services industry. Establish the National Engineering Technology Center, focusing on solar photovoltaic, solar thermal power generation application technology research and development. Strengthen solar photovoltaic, solar thermal power generation equipment and product testing and certification capacity building, the formation of new product testing and research base for advanced level tests. Encourage local governments and enterprises to conduct a joint research and development of solar power technology innovation platform construction, a solar power technology innovation gathering of regional industry advantage.
Clean energy technology deployment: 
Continue to improve the promotion of the development of large-scale solar power market competition mechanism to promote solar power costs to continue to decline, establish and perfect the mechanism of solar power generation state subsidies for market-based competition, gradually reduce the amount of subsidies per unit of electricity in the country.---By the end of 2015[...] PV basic research and technological innovation ability will have made great progress, established a relatively complete materials, production equipment, systems integration and support services industry system, to continue to improve the conversion efficiency of the photovoltaic cell industry chain fully optimized, global competitiveness and cost of photovoltaic cell technology further improved.
R&D renewable energy: 
Carry out policies and development mode innovation through micro-grid demonstration projects and new energy demonstration cities. -- Integrate solar power-related research institutes, universities of technology, the establishment of a national solar power laboratory, focusing on basic theory, cutting-edge technology, key technology and generic technology research for solar energy.
Technology collaboration with other member States: 
Undertake globalization of R & D cooperation to encourage domestic enterprises and foreign enterprise cooperation in solar power related to cutting-edge technology, generic technology research, focusing on solar energy application technology research and development, as well as power grid control associated with solar power technology research and development
Industrialization support: 
Through the construction of a certain scale of solar power plants, vigorously promote the distributed photovoltaic power generation system, and actively cultivate a sustained and steady growth of the domestic solar power market. And actively carry out solar power applications, increase investment and innovate operation mode. Via the reforms of power system mechanism and innovation mechanism, establish and improve the solar energy diversification policy system , hence to provide a broad market space and a good development environment for solar power.