While
the global PV market remains a
difficult beast to predict, with a wide array of public policy variables
impacting on demand across a host of countries, BNEF expects annual installed
capacity to increase by more than 20% in 2015. BNEF forecasts that by the end of
2014 an additional 48.4 GW of solar generating
capacity will have been added to global grids.
The
key drivers for global growth, on a national level, remains to be China and
Japan with BNEF expecting 13 GW to 14 GW and 9 GW to 11 GW to installed
respectively in 2014. China, in particular, is seeing an end-of-year boom with
BNEF expecting a whopping 8 PW to 9 GW of PV to commissioned in China in Q4 2014
alone.
“There
was a 6 GW quota given to what [the Chinese government] called ‘transmission
grid connected projects,’ at the beginning of the year – and those were going
ahead without any problem,” said BNEF’s head of solar analysis Chase. “The big
question was all about the 8 GW quota for ‘distribution grid connected PV projects’ – and for those
the economics didn’t really make sense until early September when the government
changed the rules.”
BNEF’s
Chase reports that many Chinese project developers were waiting for such a rule
change and were ready to go with projects planned and designed.
“There
were a large number of projects that were in project planning that were waiting
for this [rule change to ‘distribution grid connected projects’] to happen. So I
am pretty optimistic that something like 8 or 9 GW of projects can be
commissioned in the Q4,” Chase told pv
magazine. “It is quite a lot.”
BNEF
analysis indicates that supplying these projects remains profitable for Chinese
module producers.
“I
think it is still marginally profitable for the low cost suppliers,” said Chase.
“We are hearing prices in the low $0.60/W, which in big enough volumes is still
worth doing.” Such prices work with volumes above 10 MW, according to BNEF
analysis.
Elsewhere
European markets remain slow, and BNEF is less bullish than some other analysts
on the UK market in 2014. It expects between 2.5 GW and 2.8
GW to be installed in 2014. Chase reports that it is still uncertain as to
whether the “Contracts for Difference” (CfD) scheme, which is replacing ROCs in
May 2015, will deliver any significant volume to PV developers.
Looking
towards emerging PV markets, Chile looks set to approach GW-market status in 2015. BNEF forecasts between 470
MW and 570 MW to go into Chile in 2014, growing to between 800 MW and 975 MW in
2015.
The
Indian market too will grow, according to the BNEF forecasts. From 892 MW to 1.1
GW in 2014, the Indian market looks set to double in size in 2015 – to 2.6 GW to
3.2 GW. Power generation for onsite use, in India, is a particularly interesting
emerging market in India, says Chase.
“Even
though the typical grid price for electricity in India is not particularly high,
a lot of companies have these ‘captive power plants’ for reliability and because
in India some commercial enterprises subsidizes the residential sector,” said
Chase. “And this provides an incentive for companies to sign PPA with a solar
plant.”
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