April 2025 Photovoltaic Policy Summary | Analysis of National and Local Policies!

PART.01 National Level Policies

1. "Opinions on Improving the Price Governance Mechanism"

Issuing Department: General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, General Office of the State Council

Release Date: April 2, 2025

Original Content: This document aims to improve energy price policies that promote green and low-carbon transformation ，improve on-site trading price policies for new energy, optimize the incremental distribution network price mechanism, improve the tiered electricity price system in key industrial sectors, improve the carbon pricing mechanism, and improve the national unified green electricity certificate trading system.

The content involves deepening price market-oriented reforms, accelerating the construction of key market sectors, and improving agricultural and energy price policies.

2. "Notice on Carrying Out Comprehensive Supervision Work in the Power Sector in 2025"

Issuing Department: National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 4, 2025

Original Content: The notice requires comprehensive supervision work in the power sector in six provinces ，focusing on the start, construction, commissioning, and operation of cross-provincial and cross-regional power transmission channel projects approved and reviewed during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, as well as the construction of supporting power transmission projects for the "Shagohuang" new energy base and the implementation of renewable energy power consumption responsibility weights.

3. Q&A on "Management Measures for the Development and Construction of Distributed Photovoltaic Power Generation" (2025 Edition)

Issuing Department: National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 11, 2025

Original Content: This document addresses common questions regarding the definition and classification, industry management, filing management, construction management, grid access, and project operation of distributed photovoltaic power generation, answering 73 common questions and providing detailed guidance for the development and construction of distributed photovoltaic power generation.

4. "Implementation Plan for the New Generation of Coal-fired Power Upgrades (2025-2027)"

Issuing Department: National Development and Reform Commission, National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 14, 2025

Original Content: The plan aims to promote the application of advanced and innovative technologies, improve the clean and carbon reduction technology level of units, increase the intensity of technological innovation in deep peak regulation and rapid load change intelligent control of coal-fired power generation, and support the joint operation of coal-fired power generation and new energy.

5. "China Green Electricity Certificate Development Report"

Issuing Department: National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 21, 2025

Original Content: The report provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of China's green electricity certificate system ，including the progress and achievements in green certificate issuance and trading, market cultivation, and application scenario expansion, and looks forward to the future development prospects of the green certificate industry.

6. "Typical Cases of Supervision on the Progress of Distributed Photovoltaic Filing and Grid Connection in 2024"

Issuing Department: National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 22, 2025

Original Content: This document publishes typical cases found by the National Energy Administration in the special supervision work on the progress of distributed photovoltaic filing and grid connection conducted in 11 provinces ，involving problems and rectification situations in the filing and grid connection process.

7. "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy"

Issuing Department: Ministry of Transport and nine other departments

Release Date: April 25, 2025

Original Content: The opinions put forward the guiding ideology, basic principles, and main objectives for promoting the integrated development of transportation and energy, including promoting the coordinated and interactive planning of transportation and energy infrastructure and the unified planning of the clean energy supply guarantee system for transportation.

8. "Notice on Several Measures to Promote the Development of the Private Economy in the Energy Sector"

Issuing Department: National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 28, 2025

Original Content: The notice introduces a series of innovative measures from three aspects: supporting private enterprises in enhancing their development momentum, promoting fair market participation by private enterprises, and improving the level of energy government services, including supporting private enterprises in participating in the investment and construction of large bases in "Shagohuang" and encouraging private enterprises to build concentrated solar power projects.

9. "Announcement on the Situation of Newly Filed and Registered New Energy Power Generation Projects (excluding household photovoltaic) in March 2025"

Issuing Department: National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 28, 2025

Original Content: The announcement publishes the situation of newly filed and registered new energy power generation projects nationwide in March 2025, including the number and distribution of wind power, photovoltaic power generation, and biomass power generation projects.

4408 photovoltaic power generation projects (56 centralized photovoltaic power generation projects, 4352 industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaic power generation projects) 。

10. "List of Demonstration Projects for Green, Low-Carbon Advanced Technologies (Second Batch)"

Issuing Department: General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission

Release Date: April 28, 2025

Original Content: The list includes a number of demonstration projects for green, low-carbon advanced technologies, including concentrated solar power demonstration projects and photovoltaic-thermal power generation integrated demonstration projects ，aiming to promote the research and development and application of green and low-carbon technologies.

11. "Notice on Accelerating the Construction of the Electricity Spot Market"

Issuing Department: General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission, Comprehensive Department of the National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Original Content: The notice requires accelerating the construction of the electricity spot market, basically achieving full coverage of the electricity spot market by the end of 2025, and clarifies the timetable for the formal operation of the electricity spot markets in Hubei, Zhejiang, and other regions.

12. "Basic Rules of the Electricity Ancillary Services Market"

Issuing Department: National Development and Reform Commission, National Energy Administration

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Original Content: The rules clarify the operating entities, market varieties, trading organization, and cost transmission regulations of the electricity ancillary services market, aiming to guide the construction of the national electricity ancillary services market and adapt to the needs of electricity reform and development.

 

PART.02 Local Level Policies (25 Provinces and Cities)

Photovoltaic Construction Indicators and Project Management

1. Liaoning: Released the construction plan for the second batch of wind power and photovoltaic projects in 2025, with a total capacity of 10.6 million kilowatts (3 million kilowatts of photovoltaic).

Release Date: April 18, 2025

2. Hebei: Publicly announced the first batch of development and construction plans, with a proposed 50 projects totaling 4.48387 million kilowatts (1.72325 million kilowatts of photovoltaic).

Announcement Date: April 22, 2025

3. Guizhou: Prepared 94 wind power and photovoltaic projects with a total capacity of 7.96893 million kilowatts (1 million kilowatts of photovoltaic).

Preparation Date: December 2024 to April 2025

Release Date: April 17, 2025

4. Wuzhong City, Ningxia/Xianyang City, Shaanxi/Shanxi: Abandoned wind and solar projects that lack the conditions for construction, optimizing resource allocation.

Wuzhong City Announcement Date: April 8, 2025

Xianyang City Announcement Date: February 12, 2025

Photovoltaic Subsidy Policies

1. Xicheng District, Beijing: Subsidizes newly connected distributed photovoltaic projects at 600 yuan/kilowatt based on the installed capacity, with a maximum reward of 1 million yuan per project.

Release Date: March 28, 2025

2. Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang: Provides a one-time reward of 0.2 yuan/watt based on the installed capacity for enterprise and household photovoltaic projects, with a maximum of 5 million yuan per project.

Draft for Comments Release Date: April 17, 2025

3. BIPV (Building-Integrated Photovoltaics) and Photovoltaic Storage Policies Chongqing/Dongyuan County, Guangdong/Shenzhen: Introduced special policies for BIPV, promoting the deep integration of photovoltaics and buildings.

Chongqing Release Date: April 24, 2025

Dongyuan County Feedback Announcement Date: April 30, 2025

Shenzhen Relevant Support Policy Highlights Release Date: March 11, 2025 (not directly related, but a recent policy)

4. Jilin/Zhuhai City, Guangdong/Henan: Requires photovoltaic projects to be equipped with energy storage facilities (such as Jilin's 15% energy storage configuration ratio), improving system flexibility.

Jilin Release Date: April 14, 2025

Zhuhai City Implementation Date: April 1, 2025 (Notice Release Date: January 17, 2025)

5. Photovoltaic Planning and Guiding Opinions Dongguan City, Guangdong: Aims to achieve an installed capacity of 3 million kilowatts by the end of 2025, with an additional 3 million kilowatts during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.

Sichuan: Aims to achieve an installed capacity of 45 million kilowatts for photovoltaics and wind power by 2027, with revenue exceeding 500 billion yuan for the new energy industry chain.

Hefei City, Anhui: Strives to achieve a new energy installed capacity of 7.5 million kilowatts in 2025, with more than 3.3 million kilowatts of centralized photovoltaic and wind power.

Local Characteristic Policies

Korqin District, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia: Resumed the registration of household distributed photovoltaics to alleviate grid absorption pressure.

Issuance Date: April 16, 2025

Policy Document: Announcement on Resuming the Acceptance of Household Distributed Photovoltaic Registration issued by the Korqin District Development and Reform Commission of Tongliao City

Policy Highlights: Starting from April 22, 2025, the registration of household distributed photovoltaics in Korqin District will be restarted, provided that grid safety and absorption are guaranteed.

Local "Implementation Details for the Development and Construction Management of Distributed Photovoltaic Power Generation (Draft for Comments)"

Jilin issued a document clarifying that the annual grid-connected electricity of general industrial and commercial self-generation and self-use projects in 2025 shall not exceed 20% of the total power generation.

Chongqing issued a document stating that for general industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaics, the annual self-generation and self-use electricity shall generally be no less than 30%-40% of the total power generation.

Guangxi issued a document stating that for general industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaics using self-generation and self-use with surplus electricity to the grid, the annual self-generation and self-use electricity shall be no less than 50% of the total power generation.

Hainan issued a document stating that for general industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaic projects using self-generation and self-use with surplus electricity to the grid, the annual self-generation and self-use electricity shall be no less than 50% of the total power generation.

Shanxi issued a document stating that for industrial and commercial photovoltaics using self-generation and self-use with surplus electricity to the grid, the self-generation and self-use electricity shall account for more than 50% of the annual power generation and encourages optimization of grid safety and grid friendliness through energy storage and other means.

Shandong issued a document stating that general industrial and commercial and large-scale industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaics should generally choose the all self-generation and self-use mode, but can also use the self-generation and self-use with surplus electricity to the grid mode. For those using self-generation and self-use with surplus electricity to the grid, the annual self-generation and self-use electricity shall be no less than 50% of the total power generation, and all grid-connected electricity shall participate in the electricity spot market.

Guizhou issued a document clarifying that for general industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaics using self-generation and self-use with surplus electricity to the grid, the proportion of annual self-generation and self-use electricity shall be determined based on the actual situation of the project.

Jiangsu issued a document clarifying that for general industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaic power generation projects using the self-generation and self-use with surplus electricity to the grid mode, no requirements are set for the proportion of self-generation and self-use electricity for the time being.

 

PART.03 Policy Trend Analysis
 

1. Accelerated Market-Oriented Approach: The national level promotes electricity price market-oriented reforms, and local governments guide the healthy development of the industry through construction indicators and subsidy adjustments.

2. Technology Innovation Driven: Encourages high-efficiency battery technologies (such as TOPCon, HJT), energy storage matching, and intelligent applications.

3. Alleviating Absorption Pressure: Improves grid flexibility through energy storage configuration, virtual power plants, and dynamic assessment mechanisms.

4. Regional Differences: Eastern regions focus on distributed and industrial and commercial photovoltaics, while central and western regions promote the construction of centralized large-scale bases.

April 2025 saw photovoltaic policies characterized by "national guidance on transformation and precise local strategies," with market-oriented approaches, technological innovation, and absorption guarantees as core directions. Enterprises need to keep pace with policy changes, optimizing their technological routes and business models to adapt to industry transformation.