Source: Financial Associated Press
"Kechuangban Daily" reported on May 17 (Editor Song Ziqiao), based on reports from the Financial Times, Reuters and other foreign media, the EU's draft REPowerEU plan proposes to increase rooftop photovoltaic power generation by 15TWh in 2022. The draft also calls for EU and national governments to take action this year to shorten the time to apply for permission to install rooftop photovoltaic installations to three months, proposing that "by 2025, all new buildings and existing buildings with energy consumption class D or above must Rooftop photovoltaics should be installed”.
In addition, the European Commission may set photovoltaic power generation capacity installed capacity targets at 300GW in 2025 and 500GW in 2030. Some member states are more radical, with Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Spain calling for the 2030 target to be set at 1TW.
The REPowerEU plan was proposed by the European Union on March 8 this year, with a value of up to 195 billion euros, aiming to allow member countries to gradually eliminate their dependence on Russian fossil fuels by 2030. The European Commission will present a package plan to implement the RePowerEU strategy on May 18 (Wednesday).
As an important application scenario of distributed photovoltaics, rooftop photovoltaics are not limited by land, and development conditions are more convenient.
Since the end of 2021, Spain, France, the Netherlands and other countries have launched policy measures such as government subsidies, tax reductions and fee reductions, and accelerated grid connection approvals to encourage the development of distributed photovoltaics. Well-known research organization Wood Mackenzie believes that rooftop photovoltaics in Europe have great potential and are expected to continue to become an important growth pole for the European photovoltaic industry.
European countries are the key export destinations for domestic photovoltaic companies. Eurostat data shows that the EU imported solar modules worth 8 billion euros in 2020, of which 75% were modules from China. China's photovoltaic export data to Europe increased sharply from January to March, and the full-year target was raised.
He Zhaohui, an analyst at Guolian Securities, previously said that the value of my country's photovoltaic industry chain accounts for about 80% of the world's, and 80% of European photovoltaic modules rely on imports. This year, my country's photovoltaic module export demand will be greatly stimulated. With energy security in crisis, EU module imports will receive higher premiums. It is recommended to pay attention to Aikang Technology, Risheng Dongfang, and Linyang Energy in the distributed industry chain.
▍Domestic rooftop photovoltaics are also experiencing a boom in development, and the potential market for BIPV is huge
Domestically, policies related to rooftop photovoltaics continue to provide benefits:
On May 6, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting Urbanization Construction with County Towns as an Important Carrier" to promote rooftop distributed photovoltaics in areas where conditions permit;
On June 20, 2021, the National Energy Administration issued the "Notice on Submitting a Pilot Plan for the Development of Rooftop Distributed Photovoltaics in the County (City, District)". The "Notice" stated that it will promote the construction of rooftop distributed photovoltaic buildings and requires those who apply for the pilot The proportion of the total roof area of party and government buildings in the county (city, district) that can be installed with photovoltaic power generation is not less than 50%; schools, hospitals, village committees, etc. are not less than 40%; industrial and commercial factories are not less than 30%; rural residents The roof shall not be less than 20%.
Broken down, rooftop photovoltaics mainly include building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and installed solar photovoltaic buildings (BAPV). From the perspective of project construction, BIPV is better than BAPV in terms of safety, viewing, convenience and follow-up. It has certain advantages from the maintenance perspective; from the perspective of project profitability, whether it is the owner's independent investment or the third-party investor's leasing investment, BIPV can bring higher returns to the owner than BAPV.
He Zhaohui, an analyst at Guolian Securities, said that in terms of BIPV alone, China's building roof area is about 30 billion square meters. Assuming that roofs that meet BIPV conditions account for 15-20%, the stock market will be about 606-808GW. By the end of 2021, China's photovoltaic The installed capacity stock is 306GW, which shows the huge potential market for BIPV.
Shengang Securities previously stated that China's BIPV market has the conditions for large-scale growth on the supply side. On the demand side, the investment payback period can be controlled within ten years even without subsidies, and the market supply and demand conditions are mature. Under normal circumstances, it is expected that the BIPV market space will exceed 10 billion yuan in 2022, and the industry will usher in a large-scale explosion starting in 2023. CITIC Securities predicts that 2022 will be the year when the implementation of BIPV industry policies and projects accelerates.
Some leading companies have already deployed on BIPV. Sente has cooperated with LONGi to develop multiple series of BIPV products such as "roof"; the crystalline silicon component BIPV products on the market also include Trina Solar's "Tiannengding" and CITIC Bo's "double roof" products; Risen Energy shared its latest BIPV products - Super Roof and Super Energy Tile at the press conference on March 29; JinkoSolar demonstrated its own color curtain wall products and color steel tile solutions at the 2021 Photovoltaic SNEC Exhibition; Dewei Optoelectronic building materials products were officially released in March; building materials BIPV include film curtain wall products jointly launched by China Construction Industry and Longyan Energy.