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As the main producer, the willingness of villagers to adopt residential rooftop PV products is a key factor affecting rural photovoltaic power station development, land use and
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Usually, only about 30% of households can adopt PV. To increase that percentage, the village would need to expand transformer capacity. The costs of that expansion get divided up and paid by later adopters. This raises their construction costs and creates an obstacle to adoption. It is another form of injustice.
This paper examines inequality in household adoption of rooftop solar photovoltaics in rural China through a qualitative study of three villages. The Chinese government promotes distributed solar to drive low-carbon development. However, community management and China’s institutional system influence unequal access.
From a procedural justice standpoint, the village committee acts as an agent negotiating with photovoltaic enterprises while villagers participate limitedly (e.g., voting at meetings). Regarding pricing roof resources and determining cooperation specifics, villagers’ absence in negotiations diminishes the fairness of the process.
Nature Communications 11, Article number: 1969 (2020) Cite this article Since 2013, China has implemented a large-scale initiative to systematically deploy solar photovoltaic (PV) projects to alleviate poverty in rural areas.
When developing future solar PV schemes, policy-makers should consider ways that existing Prosuming Project practitioners from low-income communities could potentially share their knowledge. For example, funding them to contribute to policy initiatives, co-producing information or acting as solar ambassadors.
A review of photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects in China: current status, challenge and policy recommendations. Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev.94, 214–223 (2018). Murray, S. F. Solar PV can help China’s poorest.
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