Photovoltaic panel installation in Xuchen Village

Does community management influence household adoption of rooftop solar photovoltaics in rural China?

This paper examines inequality in household adoption of rooftop solar photovoltaics in rural China through a qualitative study of three villages. The Chinese government promotes distributed solar to drive low-carbon development. However, community management and China’s institutional system influence unequal access.

Why is China promoting photovoltaic system in rural areas?

Based on the above reasons, the Chinese government plans to vigorously promote the construction of photovoltaic system in rural areas, which has been included in the 14 th Five-Year Plan of renewable energy development. In the foreseeable future, rural photovoltaic system in China will achieve rapid and sustainable growth. Figure 4.

Can a photovoltaic power generation system be built in Ningbo?

In the case of Li’ao Village, a photovoltaic demonstration village in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, a photovoltaic power generation system covering the whole roofs of rural houses in the village was built with a collective investment of 5 million yuan.

Can a village adopt a solar power system?

Usually, only about 30% of households can adopt PV. To increase that percentage, the village would need to expand transformer capacity. The costs of that expansion get divided up and paid by later adopters. This raises their construction costs and creates an obstacle to adoption. It is another form of injustice.

What is BIPV design of rural residential building in China?

There are relatively few researches on BIPV design of rural residential building in China. According to different ways of combining photovoltaic system and building envelope structure, some scholars (Du 2013; Liu 2018; Liu and Sun 2014) proposed that BIPV can be divided into two categories: “installation type” and “building material type”.

What are the characteristics of distributed photovoltaic system in rural areas?

First of all, the residential building density and power load density in rural areas are relatively low, which match the characteristics of distributed photovoltaic system (Haghdadi et al. 2017; Zhang et al. 2015; Zhu and Gu 2010).