In the wave of energy transition and sustainable development, distributed photovoltaic, as an important part of clean energy, is reshaping the global energy landscape at an unprecedented rate.

With the continuous innovation of technology, policy drive and growing market demand, the distributed PV field also presents new trends.

1. High-power components “on the roof ”

Under the superposition of high-efficiency technology, the power of photovoltaic modules is rapidly rising, 600W+, 700W+ has become the main product of each component enterprise.

However, high-power components are not only the ‘favourite’ of ground power stations, but also rapidly fly to the roof. On the exhibition site, some head component enterprises clearly put forward ‘700W+ components on the roof’.

According to component companies, distributed PV, especially household distributed, especially favoured high-power components, mainly from the mainstream leasing model, the roof by block rent, for developers, high-power components can not only reduce the rent, and can further reduce the BOS cost, and thus the willingness to promote strong.

2. N-type components leap forward

The rapid iteration of p, n-type also reacted quickly in the distributed PV market. According to InfoLink statistics, 2023 p-type and n-type market share of about 71%, 27%, but is expected this year n-type share will rapidly increase to 79%.

In terms of distributed market, according to component enterprise feedback, this year's distributed PV market n-type products accounted for more than 60% or more, ‘the iteration speed greatly exceeds expectations.

3. Segmented market demand is widely concerned

Distributed PV scenarios of the diversity also determines the demand for different component products, which in turn drives component manufacturers to continue to push the envelope.

For example, for the distributed PV power station's easy ash accumulation pain point, LONGi, Jinko, Trina have launched anti-ash accumulation components; to adapt to the hot and humid environment, LONGi newly pushed hot and humid-resistant new products and so on.

In addition, the lightweight flexible components have attracted much attention, and the main push companies include Nanjing Rittal PV, Shangmai New Energy, Pincheng Jingyao and so on.

According to the relevant enterprises, lightweight flexible components of the main market, including the roof and curved buildings with limited load, the current maximum power of up to 500W +, but the price, the price of flexible components is about twice the price of conventional components.

4. Commercial and industrial inverters to higher power

Inverter equipment, in order to further reduce system costs, industrial and commercial inverters from the mainstream 110kW, 125kW to a higher power 150kW, Sunny Power, TBEA, WoWang Electric, Gurui-Watt and so on have exhibited 150kW industrial and commercial string inverters.

And in order to adapt to high-power components, inverter access current continues to rise, the head of the enterprise 110kW string inverter access current has been maximised to 64 amps.

5. Grid connection

Whether from the feedback of equipment manufacturers or developers, distributed photovoltaic business, a major impetus for the rapid rebound undoubtedly comes from the grid access to the push.

As we all know, since the second half of last year, hebei, shandong, heilongjiang, henan, zhejiang, guangdong, fujian provinces have released distributed photovoltaic grid connection carrying capacity warning situation, can be added to open the capacity of the region for 0 continues to spread rapidly.

As a result, the next grid access will be distributed PV competing for the ‘new indicators’, grid carrying capacity will also become an important factor in limiting the installation of new distributed PV.

6. Desk area distribution storage into the market

Centralised convergence outside, can achieve transformer capacity expansion path there are platform distribution storage, that is, usually installed in the distribution transformer where the power distribution station or station, distributed PV overload power generation can not go through the transformer directly stored in the energy storage equipment, thus solving the transformer capacity problem, and can cope with instantaneous load fluctuations in the distribution network and the peak load demand, to improve the stability of the power grid.

According to the relevant enterprise calculation, with a distribution and storage ratio of 15%, the configuration of 200kW/400kWh energy storage system, for example, can increase the distributed PV development capacity of about 1.2MW, the cost of the energy storage system increased by about 0.4 ~ 0.5 yuan / W.

Quality, consumption, distribution and storage, into the market ...... just unfolded in 2024, is undoubtedly another inflection point of distributed PV year, and the healthy and sustainable development of the industry, that is, relying on the policy specification of the government at all levels, but also thanks to the myriad of industry enterprise solutions as well as the innovation and breakthroughs of the business model, multi-party benefit, help zero carbon.