Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 25 Question: Three departments take action to rectify the chaos in the photovoltaic industry
Xinhua News Agency reporters Dai Xiaohe and Zhang Xinxin
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice recently to deploy and promote the coordinated development of the photovoltaic industry chain and supply chain, and proposed to strengthen cross-departmental joint law enforcement, and severely crack down on price gouging, monopoly, and production and sales of counterfeiting in the photovoltaic industry. Fake and shoddy products and other violations of laws and regulations.
In the context of dual carbon, the photovoltaic industry has become one of the most popular tracks at present. At the same time of rapid development, the industry has also experienced problems such as hoarding, fragmentation of the market, and regional closure. Lin Yu, president of Zhongguancun Xinhua New Energy Industry Research Institute, believes that the joint action of the three departments will help to improve the chaos in the industry, optimize the industrial layout, deepen the cooperation of the whole chain, and stabilize the supply and demand of the industry.
The notice requires regulating the industry order and promoting the stable and orderly development of the industry chain.
According to the relevant person in charge of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, the photovoltaic industry chain is divided into three links: upstream, middle and downstream, of which the upstream is the production of high-purity polysilicon, and the midstream is the production of polycrystalline ingots/monocrystalline rods, slices, photovoltaic cell production, photovoltaic Power generation components packaging and other links, and downstream include photovoltaic power generation systems such as centralized photovoltaic power plants and distributed photovoltaic power plants.
Since last year, the most prominent part of the contradiction between supply and demand in the photovoltaic industry chain has appeared on the upstream resource side, and the price of polysilicon as the main raw material has continued to rise.
The latest data from the Silicon Industry Branch of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association shows that the average transaction price of single crystal re-feeding has reached 306,000 yuan / ton, an increase of 32% from the beginning of the year.
The stable supply of the industrial chain and the stable price of raw materials are the common expectations of the entire industry. The notice requires that enterprises and institutions are encouraged to carry out reasonable storage of materials such as polysilicon and batteries, and hoarding is strictly prohibited. Local market supervision departments should strengthen supervision and management, strengthen cross-departmental joint law enforcement, and severely crack down on illegal activities such as price gouging, monopoly, and production and sale of fake and shoddy products in the photovoltaic industry.
The notice also emphasizes optimizing the industrial layout, scientifically planning and managing the development of the photovoltaic industry in the region, and actively, steadily and orderly promoting the construction of the national photovoltaic market. According to the development characteristics of each link of the industrial chain, rationally guide the pace of upstream and downstream construction expansion, and avoid industrial convergence, vicious competition and market monopoly. In the development and construction of photovoltaic power generation projects, it is not allowed to hoard and sell resources such as power station development, forcibly require investment in supporting industries, and purchase local products.
With the vigorous development of the photovoltaic industry, the problem of recycling and disposal of waste photovoltaic modules has become prominent. Industry insiders pointed out that the current recycling scale of photovoltaic modules in my country is relatively small, and the recycling technology and mode of recycling are not yet mature.
The notice also responds to this hot concern, calling for strengthening the full life cycle management and carbon footprint accounting of the photovoltaic industry chain, and accelerating research on waste module recycling technologies, standards and industrialization.
[Editor in charge: Wang Han]