China on Pace for Record Solar-Power Installations
- BNEF boosts estimate to 54 gigawatts from about 30 gigawatts
- Rooftop plants and projects for the poor were a surprise
Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
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China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, is poised to install a record amount of solar-power capacity this year, prompting researchers to boost forecasts as much as 80 percent.
About 54 gigawatts will be put in place this year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said Monday, raising a forecast of more than 30 gigawatts made in July. That amount of additional capacity would likely surpass all the solar energy generated in Japan in 2017.