China's five departments: focus on eight major directions for the development of photovoltaics

The priority directions of this project are as follows:

1. Integration of light and storage. Apply new energy storage technologies and products to improve 

photovoltaic power generation stability, grid friendliness and consumption capabilities, including 

photovoltaic DC systems, photovoltaic storage microgrids, rural photovoltaic storage and charging 

systems, portable photovoltaic storage products, etc.

2. Building photovoltaics. Including photovoltaics as building components such as building roofs, 

curtain walls or sunshades, which are organically integrated with the building, and photovoltaic power 

generation matches the building's electricity load.

3. Transportation applications. Including scenarios such as highway passenger and freight hubs, 

highway service areas (parking lots), gas stations, ports and terminals, building a "distributed 

photovoltaic + energy storage + microgrid" transportation energy system to achieve a high proportion 

of green power for self-use.

4.Agricultural and rural applications. In production scenarios such as facility agriculture, large-scale 

planting and primary processing of agricultural products, develop an agricultural-photovoltaic 

complementary ecological composite model, and give priority to supporting qualified photovoltaic 

poverty alleviation projects.

5. Photovoltaic greening. Including green design and green manufacturing of photovoltaic products, 

recycling and reuse of decommissioned photovoltaic modules, remanufacturing of photovoltaic module 

parts, photovoltaic "carbon footprint" evaluation and certification, photovoltaic supply chain traceability 

system, etc.

6. Key information technology. Including intelligent dispatching, intelligent operation and maintenance 

of photovoltaic systems, as well as communication and information systems for intelligent photovoltaic 

systems, flexible power electronics, smart microgrids, virtual power plants, industrial software, industrial 

robots, etc.

7. Advanced photovoltaic products. Including high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells (conversion 

efficiency above 25%), perovskite and tandem solar cells, advanced thin-film solar cells, and related 

industry chains supporting high-quality, highly reliable, low-cost equipment and materials.

8. New facilities and empirical testing. This includes smart photovoltaic systems for new infrastructure 

such as data centers and 5G, as well as photovoltaic applications and empirical testing for typical 

scenarios such as extreme cold, extreme heat, high humidity, low irradiation, and high salt spray.