IMPACT EVALUATION OF THE CHINESE BRIGHTNESS-PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTED DURING 1996-2006

摘要

Aiming at an improvement of the living and working conditions of people in remote un-electrified areas ofWestern China the at that time State Development Planning Commission (SDPC) today National Development and ReformCommission (NDRC), initiated the so-called “Brightness Programme” in 1996. According to the objective of the BrightnessProgramme it is planned that approximately 23 million people in remote area shall be electrified by means of decentralizedwind and PV technologies by 2010. Back in 1996 a number of challenges and problems like financing and affordability,technical quality, sales- and service network, and education and training for end-user which could be encountered in thecourse of implementation were identified. After a pilot phase (1999-2002) China launched the globally most ambitiousnational rural electrification programme, the so-called Township Programme in 2002 which today is considered to be themajor reason for the stimulation of the phenomenal development of the Chinese PV industry. Until recently, the Chinese PVindustry was relatively unknown but is today in terms of production capacities for solar cells just behind Japan and Germany.