Technological innovation is the key to achieving parity in photovoltaic power generation

According to reports, the 2017 photovoltaic benchmark on-grid electricity price has been released, and the electricity price in the first, second and third resource areas is set at 0.
6/0.
7/0.
8/kWh, which will be officially issued
soon.
Previously, on September 29, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the Notice on Adjusting New Energy Benchmark Electricity Prices (Draft for Comments), which proposed to reduce the photovoltaic on-grid electricity price of ground power stations in Class I.
, Class II.
and Class III large-resource areas from 0.
80 yuan, 0.
88 yuan and 0.
98 yuan to 0.
55 yuan, 0.
65 yuan and 0.
75 yuan respectively, which caused a shock
in the industry.
Industry insiders believe that if the downward adjustment force is too large or the cliff-like downward adjustment will cause harm
to the photovoltaic industry.
For this electricity price adjustment, it is basically in line with expectations: it will not starve to death, but it will not be very profitable
.

In fact, the decline in electricity prices is the trend of the times
.
After entering the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", as the photovoltaic price subsidy continues to decrease, photovoltaic companies must further reduce costs and improve efficiency, and cost reduction must be based on technology research and development and technological innovation to achieve parity on the Internet
.

In the past two years, the photovoltaic industry has made a lot of efforts
to promote cost reduction.
In particular, the photovoltaic "leader" plan implemented by the National Energy Administration is aimed at encouraging technological innovation and achieving cost
reduction.
Give a special market for the products of technological innovation enterprises, so that these enterprises can focus more on the research and development of the most advanced technology equipment and production processes, rather than imposing cost reduction on ordinary products in the past, hoping that manufacturing enterprises will work the most advanced production capacity of technology
.

Therefore, on the one hand, it promotes the development of photovoltaic to high efficiency and high quality, and further eliminates backward production capacity; On the other hand, photovoltaic companies have also continued to carry out technological innovation and reduce costs
.

At present, it seems that the scale advantage and technical advantages of the photovoltaic industry have laid a good foundation for the continuous acceleration of photovoltaic technology progress, and in the future, photovoltaic will be integrated with other technologies to stimulate more efficient and low-cost technical approaches
.

Some experts pointed out that from 2014 to 2015, the photovoltaic industry was relatively warming up, and domestic photovoltaic production and manufacturing leading enterprises concentrated on expanding production capacity, which not only intensified the competition in the current photovoltaic market, but also became an important reason for
the rapid decline in photovoltaic products and bidding prices.

According to the statistics of relevant departments, through technological innovation and large-scale development, the price of photovoltaic modules in China has dropped from nearly 50 yuan per watt ten years ago to about 4 yuan per watt; The price of photovoltaic inverters has dropped from about 2 yuan per watt ten years ago to about 2 cents; The price of the entire photovoltaic system has dropped from about 60 yuan per watt ten years ago to 7 yuan per watt now, and the corresponding photovoltaic electricity price has dropped by 76%.

Liang Zhipeng, deputy director of the Department of New and Renewable Energy of the National Energy Administration, has said that by 2020, the cost of photovoltaic power generation should be significantly reduced, and by 2025, photovoltaic can fully achieve parity on the grid
.

"New energy to replace traditional energy ultimately relies on economy and competitiveness, rather than always relying on policy support to become the flower of the greenhouse
.
" Li Ye, director of supervision of the National Energy Administration, said that at present, China's new energy equipment manufacturing technology and capacity has reached a high level, and large-scale development and technological innovation such as photovoltaic, wind power, and energy storage have greatly reduced the cost of new energy development and further improved the competitiveness
of the new energy market.

For the photovoltaic industry, to achieve parity on the Internet, only the continuous reduction of module costs and the continuous improvement of technical efficiency can truly change the price of the photovoltaic industry, because the ultimate determination of the fate of the photovoltaic is the real on-grid price
.

In addition, with the development of the global economy, the energy crisis and environmental pollution are attracting increasing attention, and new energy represented by photovoltaic power generation occupies an increasingly important position
in the energy system.
Research shows that from 2030, renewable energy will become the backbone of
the power system.
On November 7, the National Energy Administration mentioned in the "13th Five-Year Plan for Power Development" that by 2020, China's solar power generation installed capacity will reach 110GW, of which the total installed capacity of solar thermal power generation is 5GW, and the total installed capacity of distributed photovoltaic will reach more than 60GW, which will undoubtedly bring new vitality and vitality
to the development of the photovoltaic industry.

In addition, we should understand grid parity from two aspects, not only focusing on centralized generation, but also looking at distributed generation
.
At present, the general price of industrial electricity on the sales side is 0.
7-0.
8 yuan / kWh, and some are even higher
.
If under distributed conditions, as long as photovoltaic power generation can reach 0.
6 yuan / kWh, it means that parity has been achieved
.

The industry predicts that the state's subsidies for photovoltaics are falling so rapidly, the user-side parity is just around the corner, and the power generation side parity is expected to be realized
at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.