GEM Photovoltaic Sector

What is the global solar power tracker?

The Global Solar Power Tracker is a worldwide dataset of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal facilities. It covers operating solar farm phases with capacities of 1 megawatt (MW) or more and all announced, pre-construction, construction, and shelved projects with capacities greater than 20 MW.

How does gem track solar projects?

Every solar park is linked to a wiki page on the GEM wiki platform. The tracking tool provides search results by project name, start-up year, operator, owner, country, capacity, and project status. Currently, it includes 5,190 solar projects with a combined capacity of 298.7 GW across 148 countries.

Where is solar power installed in Mongolia?

Source: Distributed solar capacity data from National Energy Administration (NEA), 2023 and utility-scale solar capacity data from Global Energy Monitor, Global Solar Power Tracker. The top six provinces for wind installation, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Gansu account for 43% of the total in the country, according to GEM.

Is polysilicon a bottleneck for solar PV?

Global capacity for manufacturing wafers and cells, which are key solar PV elements, and for assembling them into solar panels (also known as modules), exceeded demand by at least 100% at the end of 2021. By contrast, production of polysilicon, the key material for solar PV, is currently a bottleneck in an otherwise oversupplied supply chain.

How much coal is in a mega wind & solar base?

For example, in the plan for the second wave of mega wind and solar bases for the period of the 14th Five Year Plan (2021-2025), 30% of the proposed capacity is actually from coal power, including 28 GW of new coal, among which 10 GW are already under construction according to GEM’s Global Coal Plant Tracker.

How much CO2 does solar PV produce?

Despite these improvements, absolute carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions from solar PV manufacturing have almost quadrupled worldwide since 2011 as production in China has expanded. Nonetheless, solar PV manufacturing represented only 0.15% of energy-related global CO 2 emissions in 2021.