(China Glass Network) With the economic rehabilitation of African continent, the demand of electric power by the area become more and more, contradictions of electric power development level and economic development become more and more obvious. Although countries of Africa have launched policies to develop the power facilities, capital and technical shortage seriously restrict the development speed of power infrastructure.
Located in the most southern continent of Africa, most area of South Africa is subtropical and tropical semiarid climate and sunshine duration of the country is more than 2500 hours per year, which is two times than that of the European. Excellent lighting condition is the essential condition for development of PV power generation industry.
Government of South Africa have realized the importance of renewable energy source development and strive to develop the industry. By the end of year 2011, DOE of South Africa has approved PV power generation project of 632 MW and condensing power station of 150 MW.
After Chinese PV enterprises got anti-dumping and anti-countervailing investigation from the European and American markets, emerging markets as Africa has become the main target market for Chinese PV manufacturers. The superior investment environment, low market admittance threshold and strong market potential of African market have attracted a number of Chinese PV enterprises.
In fact, several Chinese PV enterprises has entered into PV market of the Africa a few years ago and many enterprises has contracted to build PV projects. However, the relative low market capacity of South Africa is far from that of the European market. Capital shortage is also a big problem for the market. In addition, there're special rules for government PV projects as localization production, local employment proportion and so on.
