In recent years, Chinas photovoltaic products have not only played an important role in promoting domestic and foreign trade quality increase and stability, optimizing foreign trade structure, but also contributed positively to leading global green development and energy innovation.H, as several countries in succession put forward carbon footprint accounting standards and requirements for photovoltaic component products, Chinas photovoltaic industry development and product exports are facing new challenges and more uncertainty.

Solar exports face new barriers

Chinas photovoltaic products, especially photovoltaic components, have already occupied the global market half-wall. Europe, Asia and the Americas are the main export destinations of Chinese photovoltaic products. However, in recent years, several countries and regions have successively put forward carbon footprint assessment standards for photovoltaic components. For example, France and South Korea have put forward carbon footprint requirements for photovoltaic components imported products based on accounting standards, the EU has developed specific assessment standards for photovoltaic components, and Sweden and Italy have put forward photovoltaic component environmental product declaration and so on.

According to the General Administration of Customs data, in the first five months of this year, the cumulative export value of Chinas main photovoltaic materials (silicon plates, batteries, components) was $159.13 billion, down from the same rate of 35.5%. In which, the total exports and exports of photovoltaic components to the European market fell by 20.59% and 49.53%, respectively, the total exports and exports to the Asian market also decreased.

In addition to traditional anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard measures, carbon footprint requirements and evaluation standards have become a new type of green trade barrier, which has formed a clear elbow on the export of Chinese photovoltaic products.

China photovoltaic industry to long-term stable development, we must actively respond to new changes and new situations, further enhance the green competitiveness of products. - China photovoltaic industry association deputy secretary general Liu Yang pointed out that the specific response measures include: to formulate the carbon footprint accounting method, promote the carbon footprint certification work of photovoltaic products; in the product design and manufacturing and other aspects, strengthen the application of green, high efficiency, energy saving, reduction of consumption and other materials and technologies, reduce the level of carbon emissions; optimize the energy structure of the photovoltaic industry, continuously to the green power guaranteed low price areas, through green power transactions and zero-carbon industrial parks and other ways to do the green transformation.

Multiple initiatives to address the new situation in the industry

In order to respond to this new situation, local governments, the photovoltaic industry and enterprises have taken measures to actively address green trade barriers by actively participating in the formulation of industry standards, promoting process transformation and upgrading, and strengthening technological cooperation.

To carbon reduction, photovoltaic components first need to reduce the carbon emissions of high-energy manufacturing links such as silicon materials, silicon plates and battery plates through green electricity supply in the production process; Secondly, through scientific and technological innovation and upgrading, optimize the industrial chain production process, and energy-saving reduction.

The local government is also actively acting. Anjou Fengyang proposed to accelerate the development of new industrial chain thinking, regional manufacturing strong markets. The Fengyang city government said that at the end of the production factor, Fengyang Economic Technology Development Zone and Fengyang Compound Modern Industrial Park are creating a green electricity industry demonstration park, creating a new energy as the main power source source network load storage integrated innovation demonstration template, realizing the 100% green electricity supply from silicon plate to photovoltaic component production process. At the end of the production process, through the upgrading process, reducing the carbon footprint of silicon, promoting the 20GW N+ ultra-efficient large-scale single-crystalline silicon project landing.

In the face of the increasing green trade barriers of overseas markets, Feng Shui will actively collaborate with the head of enterprises to explore the reduction of the carbon footprint of photovoltaic products, lead the green transformation and upgrading of the photovoltaic industry, and promote the export of Chinese photovoltaic products to broader overseas markets.

At the industry level, Chinas photovoltaic products imports and exports and merchants have been voluntarily authorized by the industry head enterprises, and are leading the organization of several upstream and downstream photovoltaic products enterprises to actively cooperate with the Ministry of Commerce to formulate the low-carbon product quantification requirements - export photovoltaic components industry standards, aimed at meeting the requirements of the main exporting countries photovoltaic products carbon footprint.

At the same time, enterprises are also actively responding to the new situation by strengthening technological cooperation. During the 17th International Solar Photovoltaic and Intelligent Energy (Shanghai) Conference, Shanghai Caesare Biotech Co., Ltd. and Feng Shui Transportation Energy Investment Co., Ltd. announced the establishment of strategic cooperation, the two sides will focus on the application of bio-based polyamide composite materials industry, in Feng Shui jointly create the worlds first bio-thermal plastic composite material photovoltaic frame application demonstration project, realize the new material replacement of photovoltaic aluminum frame, and gradually promote in other distributed photovoltaic projects and photovoltaic power plant projects.

The future prospect

With the deepening of the global energy transformation, the demand for photovoltaic products in the international market will continue to grow.Implementation of carbon footprint certification and in-depth exploration of product reduction of carbon technology innovation is not only a key strategy to enhance the international competitiveness of Chinas photovoltaic industry, but also to industrial transformation and upgrading and sustainable development.

In the future, Chinas photovoltaic industry needs to continue to work on technological innovation, standard formulation and international cooperation, to address green trade barriers, promote the green transformation of the industry, and ensure the continued leadership in the global photovoltaic market.