China is the world s largest market for both photovoltaics and solar thermal energy since 2013 china has been the world s leading installer of solar photovoltaics pv.
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The government has a clear economic interest then in ensuring that there is high.
Between 2008 and 2013 china s fledgling solar electric panel industry dropped world prices by 80 percent a stunning achievement in a fiercely competitive high tech market.
The country now accounts for around about half of global solar panel demand.
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.
China s solar panel market took off after the government introduced a feed in tariff scheme for renewable energy in 2011.
According to the international energy agency iea more than 60 of the world s solar panels are made in china.
In 2015 china became the world s largest producer of photovoltaic power narrowly surpassing germany.