Five departments release action plan to enhance the application level of intelligent photovoltaic in construction.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and four other departments recently jointly issued the "Action Plan for the Innovative Development of the Smart Photovoltaic Industry," which proposes to accelerate industrial technological innovation and conduct cross-technology research combining smart photovoltaics with building energy efficiency.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and four other departments recently jointly issued the "Action Plan for the Innovative Development of the Smart Photovoltaic Industry (2021-2025)," requiring an improvement in the application level of smart photovoltaics in buildings.

The plan proposes that by 2025, the intelligence level of the photovoltaic industry will be significantly enhanced, and breakthroughs in industrial technological innovation will be achieved. The mass production conversion efficiency of new high-efficiency solar cells will be significantly improved, forming a complete supporting capacity for silicon materials, silicon wafers, equipment, materials, and devices. The construction of the smart photovoltaic industry ecosystem will be basically completed, with a gradual deepening of integration with the new generation of information technology. Significant progress will be made in smart manufacturing and green manufacturing, and the supply capacity of smart photovoltaic products will be enhanced. The application scale in green industry, green buildings, green transportation, green agriculture, rural revitalization, and other new fields will gradually expand, forming a stable business operation model to effectively meet the demand for large-scale applications in multiple scenarios.

The plan proposes to accelerate industrial technological innovation and conduct cross-technology research combining smart photovoltaics with building energy efficiency. At the same time, it aims to develop smart photovoltaic products and build a diversified product system suitable for rural self-owned building rooftops, urban areas, building energy efficiency, and ecological transportation networks. It will expand the coupling of smart photovoltaic technology, develop smart photovoltaic direct current systems, conduct research on photovoltaic energy storage direct current coupling system technology, and expand applications of direct current loads such as photovoltaic direct current buildings and solar street lights.

The plan requires that in towns and rural areas with conditions, the promotion of residential rooftop smart photovoltaic systems should be coordinated, and the promotion of solar rooftop systems for newly built government investment public buildings should be encouraged. It will carry out regional-level distributed application demonstrations centered on smart photovoltaic systems, using new technologies such as energy storage and building electricity demand response as carriers. The application level of smart photovoltaics in buildings will be improved. Actively carry out demonstrations of buildings integrating photovoltaic power generation, energy storage, direct current distribution, and flexible electricity, known as "photovoltaic-storage-direct-flexible" building construction.