With Chinese government’s policies on PV application being constantly issued, the construction of PV power plant in China has embarked on its grand journey. According to China’s National Energy Administration, the number of new PV power plant projects nationwide has reached 114 with a total investment of over 76 billion yuan. Many predict that the fourth quarter of this year will witness a new round of competition in PV plant installation towards the annual goal of 13GW installation capacity. However, the quality of PV power plants requires urgent improvement. Wide attention has been caused due to quality problems of the existing PV power plants, such as backing sheet cracking, coating attenuation and backplane burning of ground-based station components. Quality problems also lead to financial institutions’ unwillingness of financing projects.

In the end of June in 2014, Notice of Strengthening Construction and Operation Management of PV Power Plants was issued from China’s National Energy Administration to relevant government departments, PV plant investors, grid corporations and China Development Bank in order to regulate China’s PV power plant construction and operation management, improve efficiency of PV plants and insure the healthy development of the industry.

As the scale and quantity of China’s PV plants expanding, improvement and completion of commercialization of the industry is in urgent need, especially in terms of equity financing, financial analysis, equity transaction, insurance and follow-up improvement of stations.

At the same time, the distributed PV industry has gained unprecedented political support in approval, grid connection and subsidy in 2014. The goal, set by China’s National Energy Administration, of 2014 new installation capacity is 14 GW, with 8GW for the distributed and 6GW for other PV stations. The construction fund will exceed 140 billion yuan. By that time, China will become an emerging country in global PV application.

Upon China’s thriving in PV industry, we still have several considerations for its development. Do developers, investors and financing institutions have concerns about the reliability of PV power plants? How to optimize efficiency of future PV plants? What are the problems of the existing grid-connected PV power system? How to evaluate newly-built PV stations? Does the biggest obstacle in the way of distributed PV industry lie in financing model innovation or development of key technology? Will China’s PV industry embrace its spring with preferential policy support? All the above will be discussed and focused in the Meeting of PV Plant Quality Management & Distributed PV Innovation 2015.