????美國市場研究公司GTM Research的最新報告顯示，中國已成為全球最大的太陽能電池板市場，2015年，中國由太陽能電池板生成的新能源量占全球總量的1/4。中國正迅速增加發(fā)電量，太陽能只是中國新能源發(fā)電的來源之一。

????中國太陽能電池板裝機(jī)量在2015年有望達(dá)到140億瓦特，而全球總裝機(jī)量預(yù)計(jì)為550億瓦特。除中國外，今年亞太地區(qū)國家有望在全球太陽能電池板新增裝機(jī)量中占比過半，日本新增了大量太陽能電池板裝機(jī)量（福島危機(jī)后日本大幅削減核電，太陽能市場空間巨大），新興的印度市場也潛力巨大。10億瓦特大約相當(dāng)于一座大型天然氣發(fā)電站或核電站的發(fā)電量。

????通常，一提到太陽能電池板，人們就會想到安裝在住宅或建筑物屋頂?shù)碾姵匕?。隨著這一市場在部分國家繼續(xù)增長，中國的大部分太陽能電池板卻安裝在地面上，形成大型太陽能發(fā)電站，它們地處偏遠(yuǎn)地區(qū)，被并入國家電網(wǎng)。中國國家能源局表示，截止2014年年底，在連接到中國輸電網(wǎng)的280.5億瓦特太陽能電池板中，有233.8億瓦特是地面安裝型電池板。

????China has emerged as the world’s largest market for solar panels and in 2015 is expected to be home to a quarter of the planet’s new energy capacity from solar panels, according to a new report from GTM Research. China is rapidly adding as much power generation as possible, and solar is just one source of new energy generation in the country.

????China is expected to install 14 gigawatts of solar panels in 2015 out of a total 55 gigawatts worth of solar panels installed worldwide. In addition to China, countries in the Asia Pacific region are supposed to count for more than half of the world’s new solar panel capacity this year, including many new solar installations in Japan (a huge market following the reduction of nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima crisis), and an emerging potentially huge market in India. One gigawatt is around the size of a large natural gas or nuclear plant.

????Usually when people think about solar panels they picture panels installed on the rooftops of homes or buildings. And while that market is growing in some countries, the vast majority of solar panels being installed in China are mounted on the ground, organized into big solar farms, installed in remote areas and sold to utilities. China’s National Energy Administration says that out of the 28.05 gigawatts of solar panels that were connected to the country’s grid by the end of 2014, 23.38 gigawatts came from the ground-mounted type of solar panels.

????The solar panel farms in China are getting massive, particularly in the Gobi desert. This NASA satellite shows images of a sprawling solar panel farm in Dunhuang, in north west China’s Gansu Province, that has tripled in size between 2012 and today. Gansu Province alone had a total installed solar panel capacity in 2014 of 5.2 gigawatts, and it’s supposed to add another 0.5 gigawatts this year.

????GTM Research analyst Adam James says the new growth in solar panels in China is being pushed by a new feed-in tariff program in the country (solar generators can be paid a fixed competitive price for the energy created), and the Chinese government’s ambitious “Five Year Plan,” which calls for a certain amount of solar installed in the next few years.

????China needs as much electricity it can get, and because the country has more recently started to tackle its massive air pollution crisis, solar is seen as a cleaner way than coal to boost the electricity supply. Three gigawatts worth of coal power-producing plants were actually closed in 2014, and 18 gigawatts have been closed to date in the country. China pledges to eliminate 20 gigawatts of coal capacity over the next five years to help with air pollution.