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State Grid Corporation of China announced a plan to allow small-scale distributed solar power generators to connect to its power lines.: o
SGCC will allow solar power generators with less than 6 megawatts of installed capacity to be Connected to the grid.
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Connecting distributed solar power to the national grid is a "crucial step" in removing obstacles that have contained the development of China's solar industry, said the deputy director of the new and renewable energy department of the National Energy Administration.
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Wang Xiangqin, SGCC deputy chief economist confirmed also that SGCC will provide technological assistance and waive charges associated with connecting to the grid,
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Compared with centralized generation, which connects distant solar or wind facilities to customers, distributed generation will cause less damage to the grid and decrease transmission losses, said Lai Xiaokang from the China Electric Power Research Institute.
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To help expand the domestic market, NEA announced an initiative last month (October 2012) to develop distributed solar power plants on a larger scale, encouraging local governments to unveil new solar power projects.
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China vowed to increase its installed generation capacity for solar power to over 21 million kilowatts by 2015, according to a recently released white paper China's Energy Policy 2012.
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Chinese governments and banks have also issued preferential policies for solar companies, such as issuing credit to build up plants and expand production.