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Title: China Smashes Solar Installation Record In May

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/06/23/...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from OilPrice.com: China installed its
highest solar power capacity for a single month in May, according to official
data, which showed mind-boggling figures that the country installed more
solar capacity in a month than any other nation did for the entire 2024. With
93 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity installed in May, China smashed its own
record of 71 GW in December 2024, per data from the National Energy
Administration cited by Bloomberg. China's solar capacity additions in May
were rushed ahead of a new government policy -- effective June 1 -- to remove
pricing protection for solar power projects. Under these protections, solar
projects had all but guaranteed profits when they start operations. Another
new rule, effective May 1, made connecting rooftop panels to the grid more
difficult. These new policies are expected to moderate the growth in solar
power additions this summer, analysts say. A separate report notes that
China's cumulative installed solar capacity has surpassed 1 TW, according to
the National Energy Administration (NEA). "By the end of May 2025, solar
capacity had reached 1.08 TW (1,080 GW), up 56.9% year on year," reports pv
magazine. "NEA data show total power generation capacity stood at 3.61 TW at
the end of May, an 18.8% increase from a year earlier."

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