Energy

Demand for solar PV energy to top 500,000 kW

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-07-28 11:47

NANJING - China's domestic demand for solar photovoltaic (PV) energy would reach 500,000 kilowatts this year, said Liu Qi, deputy head of the National Energy Administration (NEA), here on Tuesday.

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Liu made the remarks at a forum on renewable energy industry cooperation across the Taiwan Strait. The two-day forum will close Wednesday in Nanjing, capital of eastern China's Jiangsu province.

China plans to expand the solar PV energy market gradually: to about 5 million kilowatts installation capacity in 2015 and 20 million kilowatts in 2020, according to the NEA, China's top energy planner.

Photovoltaic is a method of generating electric power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity by using semiconductors.