Proceedings of the 2017 6th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD 2017)

Successes and Failures of China's Golden-Sun Program

Authors
Yonghua Wang, Guoliang Luo, Huang Kang
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Yonghua Wang
Available Online April 2017.
DOI
10.2991/iceesd-17.2017.109How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Golden-Sun Program, Investment subsidy, Feed in tariff (FIT), Regulation, Grid connection
Abstract

In 2009, the Chinese government released the policy about the Golden-Sun Program, deciding to provide investors with upfront subsidies prior to project construction with the special funds for renewable energy, with the aim to accelerate large-scale industrialization of PV power generation in China. This paper suggests four indicators used to assess the success and failure of the Golden-Sun Program: policy system design, effectiveness, administrative institution and time frame/development period. The results showed that: the success of the Golden-Sun Program is: fiscal subsidies play a notable role in promoting growth of China's PV market; it significantly improves the efficiency of constructing PV power generation facilities at home and provides clean energy to residents in rural areas without access to power;management and design of distributed PV power generation are improved significantly. The failure of the Golden-Sun Program is: lack of systematic design and effective coordination in policies; institutional deficiencies in policy design; obstacles to connecting user-side PV systems to the grid; lack of effective regulation leads to poor quality.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 6th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD 2017)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
April 2017
ISBN
10.2991/iceesd-17.2017.109
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/iceesd-17.2017.109How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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