Assessing the effectiveness of China’s net-metering subsidies for household distributed photovoltaic systems

Jia, Xinyu; Du, Huibin; Zou, Hongyang; He, Gang

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121161

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“…According Table A2, we can find that although the decomposition analysis is relatively easy to conduct, the residual problems and implicit influence factors are hard to completely consider. Moreover, when the decomposition approach is used at the same time as the input-output approach, there is a general rule that the Structural Decomposition Analysis (SDA) method is used to study the driving factors of change, while the Input-Output Analysis method is used to analyze from a demand perspective [9][10][11]. In these studies, the variables are generally explained by rebuilding variables, which requires the equation expression of the relationship mechanism between variables in combination with the input-output table.…”

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Regional Disparities and Transformation of Energy Consumption in China Based on a Hybrid Input-Output Analysis

Xia

Zhang

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Energies

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Different regions in China have different energy consumption characteristics and changing trends. This paper focuses on analyzing trends in energy consumption changes along the timeline for 30 regions in China. Using the Hybrid Input-Output Model, this paper decomposes energy consumption in 30 regions in 2007, 2012 and 2016 into energy embedded of final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation, inflow and outflow. We use these four dimensions as coordinates to draw a regional radar map. According to the changing characteristics of the radar map, 30 regions are divided into three groups. By analyzing the reasons for the changes in three regions, we draw the following conclusions. For regions where energy consumption is mainly inflow, the economically developed regions have to form a low energy consumption environment while achieving economic growth. The economically underdeveloped regions need to carry out energy conservation and emission reduction as well as ensuring the level of economic development. For some outflow regions with moderately economic development, it is necessary to balance the economic development and energy consumption control according to regional characteristics. For resource-rich regions which are in the process of transformation from agriculture to industrialization, they have to maintain the rapid development speed and strengthen their infrastructure with less energy consumption of buildings.

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Regional Disparities and Transformation of Energy Consumption in China Based on a Hybrid Input-Output Analysis

Xia

Zhang

et al. 2020

Energies

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“…A linear program (LP) based algorithm is proposed to schedule battery storage for limiting reverse power flow with the customer objective of increasing operational savings in the context of net metering [44]. Similarly, net metering schemes are also developed in China to facilitate power production units, which results in small scale distributed generation through solar PV [45].…”

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Optimal Sizing and Cost Minimization of Solar Photovoltaic Power System Considering Economical Perspectives and Net Metering Schemes

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In this paper, economic feasibility of installing small-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) system is studied at the residential and commercial buildings from an end-user perspective. Based on given scenarios, the best sizing methodology of solar PV system installation has been proposed focusing primarily on the minimum payback period under given (rooftop) area for solar PV installation by the customer. The strategy is demonstrated with the help of a case study using real-time monthly load profile data of residential as well as commercial load/customers and current market price for solar PVs and inverters. In addition, sensitivity analysis has also been carried out to examine the effectiveness of net metering scheme for fairly high participation from end users. Since Saudi Arabia’s Electricity and Co-generation Regulatory Authority (ECRA) has recently approved and published the net metering scheme for small-scale solar PV systems allowing end users to generate and export energy surplus to the utility grid, the proposed scheme has become vital and its practical significance is justified with figures and graphs obtained through computer simulations.

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“…Although the gradual decline of subsidies can reduce the financial pressure of the government, it has affected the passion of building PV to a certain extent. It needs follow-up incentive policies, for example, the tradable green certificate (Tu et al, 2020) and carbon emission trading (Tran and Smith, 2018;Tu et al, 2019), to ensure the sustainable development of PV projects (Jia et al, 2020). Since the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union (EU) has established the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) (Ge et al, 2019), which is the largest and most influential greenhouse gas emission reduction mechanism.…”

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The LCOE Evolution and Grid Parity Analysis of Centralized Solar Photovoltaic: A Case Study of Ningxia, China

Guo

et al. 2021

Front. Energy Res.

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Achieving grid parity in 2021 is the goal of China’s photovoltaic development, which is not only on the user side but also on the generation side. Relevant studies indicated that distributed PV has realized grid parity basically in China, while centralized PV, which belongs to the generation side, still has some difficulties in achieving grid parity. Therefore, this paper takes Ningxia Province, which is abundant in solar resources, as the research object and compares LCOE with the traditional coal-fired price to analyze the situation of grid parity of the Pingluo project. It is found that this project cannot reach the goal of grid parity. Then, the future evolution of the local LCOE is analyzed, so as to determine the time of grid parity of Ningxia’s centralized PV power stations. In the calculation of LCOE, the presence and absence of environmental benefits and the general and optimistic forecast of cumulative installed capacity are combined into four scenarios. The results show that the centralized PV in Ningxia cannot achieve grid parity in 2021 under the four scenarios. However, in addition to the scenario that there are no environmental benefits and the cumulative installed capacity is generally forecasted and will reach grid parity of the generation side in 2023, the other three situations can achieve the goal in 2022. Moreover, the LCOE value is the lowest under the scenario of considering environmental benefits and the optimistic forecast of future installed capacity.

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Assessing the effectiveness of China’s net-metering subsidies for household distributed photovoltaic systems

Cited by 56 publications

References 42 publications

Regional Disparities and Transformation of Energy Consumption in China Based on a Hybrid Input-Output Analysis

Regional Disparities and Transformation of Energy Consumption in China Based on a Hybrid Input-Output Analysis

Optimal Sizing and Cost Minimization of Solar Photovoltaic Power System Considering Economical Perspectives and Net Metering Schemes

The LCOE Evolution and Grid Parity Analysis of Centralized Solar Photovoltaic: A Case Study of Ningxia, China

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