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Global Ground-Mounted Solar System Development Achieves Remarkable Results, Driven by Policies and Technology for Industrial Upgrade
2023-11-22
In 2023, as a core component of the photovoltaic power generation industry, the ground-mounted solar system ushered in a period of rapid development. Focusing on the "dual carbon" goals, countries around the world increased policy support, promoted technological iteration and upgrading, and large-scale ground-mounted solar projects flourished. It not only achieved a significant growth in installed capacity, but also made breakthrough progress in ecological integration, cost control, and efficiency improvement, becoming an important supporting force for the global energy structure transformation.
At the policy level, countries have intensively introduced favorable policies to lay a solid foundation for the development of ground-mounted solar systems. China took the lead in making efforts. In March 2023, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice, clarifying the guidance for the rational layout of ground-mounted solar projects, encouraging the construction of large-scale photovoltaic bases in unused land such as deserts, gobi, wastelands, and coal mining subsidence areas, strictly regulating land use management, establishing a joint review mechanism for land, forest, and grass use, accelerating the project approval process, and removing obstacles for the landing of ground-mounted solar projects. Meanwhile, many countries around the world promoted relevant policies simultaneously. The city of Cape Town in South Africa launched a 990-kilowatt ground-mounted solar project as part of the city's small-scale embedded power generation plan, aiming to reduce reliance on traditional power sources. It is expected to generate 1.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually and save about 2.4 million rand in electricity costs each year, demonstrating the important role of ground-mounted solar systems in municipal energy supply.
In terms of project implementation, global large-scale ground-mounted solar projects showed a trend of large-scale and ecological development in 2023. Ordos City in Inner Mongolia, China, became an important gathering place for ground-mounted solar projects, with two key projects connected to the grid successively. Among them, the Kubuqi 2000-megawatt photovoltaic desert control project in the western Inner Mongolia base was fully connected to the grid. As the largest single ecological photovoltaic desert control project in the country, it covers 100,000 mu, adopting a three-dimensional model of "double-sided power generation on the panels, double-layer ecology under the panels, and double-layer breeding between the panels". It produces an average of 4.1 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity annually, saving 1.23 million tons of standard coal and reducing 3.198 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year. At the same time, it drives the employment of local farmers and herdsmen, achieving a win-win situation between ecological protection and economic development. In November of the same year, the world's first commercial megawatt-level perovskite ground-mounted solar project was also connected to the grid in the hinterland of the Kubuqi Desert. With an installed capacity of 1 megawatt and covering 40 mu, the project is equipped with 11,200 perovskite photovoltaic modules, marking a key step in the commercial application of new photovoltaic technologies in ground-mounted solar systems.
Data shows that the global installed capacity of ground-mounted solar systems achieved leapfrog growth in 2023. As the world's largest photovoltaic market, China added 216.3 million kilowatts of new photovoltaic power generation connected to the grid throughout the year, of which 120.014 million kilowatts were new centralized (ground-mounted) photovoltaic power stations, accounting for more than 55%. By the end of 2023, the cumulative installed capacity of centralized photovoltaic power generation reached 354.481 million kilowatts, becoming the main form of photovoltaic power generation. Globally, relying on the advantages of obvious scale effect, stable power generation output, and high intensive management level, ground-mounted solar systems have gradually become the focus of photovoltaic installation in various countries. Especially in regions with abundant solar energy resources such as the northwest, north, and northeast of China, the trend of cluster development of large-scale ground-mounted photovoltaic bases is prominent, promoting the long-distance transmission of photovoltaic power and alleviating the spatial mismatch between energy supply and demand.
Technological iteration has injected new vitality into the development of ground-mounted solar systems. In 2023, new technologies such as perovskite and N-type batteries were gradually put into application. Among them, perovskite photovoltaic modules have become an important direction for the technological upgrading of ground-mounted solar systems due to their advantages of high efficiency, stability, and low cost. Enterprises such as China Three Gorges Corporation focused on the application research of perovskite modules in different climatic environments, providing data support for their large-scale commercial promotion. At the same time, the integration technology of ground-mounted solar systems has been continuously optimized. Composite models such as "photovoltaic + energy storage", "photovoltaic + desert control", and "photovoltaic + agriculture and animal husbandry" have been widely applied, which not only improved the risk resistance and comprehensive benefits of the projects, but also promoted the transformation of ground-mounted solar systems from single power generation to multi-industry integrated development. It further reduced the project construction cost, and the average construction cost of China's ground-mounted solar projects dropped to 3.2-3.6 yuan per watt in 2023, with the economic advantage becoming increasingly prominent.
Industry insiders said that the rapid development of ground-mounted solar systems in 2023 is the result of the synergy of policy guidance, technological innovation, and market demand. With the acceleration of the global energy transformation process, ground-mounted solar systems will further develop in the direction of large-scale, intelligent, and ecological in the future. The continuous breakthrough of new photovoltaic technologies, the continuous improvement of energy storage supporting facilities, and the empowerment of green certificates and carbon markets will promote the higher-quality development of ground-mounted solar systems, providing a stronger support for the realization of global "dual carbon" goals.
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