In a year characterised by continuing COVID-19 wavesand economic recovery programmes, as well as anenergy crisis that saw record-high electricity pricesaround the world, many turned to solar solutions fortheir energy needs. In 2021, 167.8 GW of solar capacity was grid-connected globally, a 21% growth over the 139.2 GW added the year before, establishing yet another global annual installation record for the sector. This brings the total operating solar fleet to 940 GW by the end of 2021, with the Terawatt milestone already achieved ahead of the publication of this Outlook in May 2022.

SolarPower Europe’s flagship Global Market Outlook for Solar Power finds that, for the 9th consecutive year, global solar power has broken its annual installation record with 168 GW of new solar PV capacity in 2021. In 2022, global solar is expected to continue the decade-long record-breaking streak, installing more than 200 GW of solar for the first time.

On March 21, the National Energy Administration released the national power industry statistics from January to February. As of the end of February, the national installed capacity of power generation was about 2.39 billion kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 7.8%. Among them, the installed capacity of wind power was about 330 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 17.5%; the installed capacity of solar power generation was about 320 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 22.7%.

In March 7th, the Belt and Road initiative and 700 megawatt photovoltaic and 250 MW photovoltaic power station projects in Dubai were launched. The 13 live news broadcast rooms, central video APP and CCTV Arabic Channel were also listed.

Official news: 53GW of new photovoltaics in 2021!

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