The country’s photovoltaic power generation is steadily moving toward the goal of achieving parity online access. On December 22, the official website of the National Development and Reform Commission released the “Notice on Pricing Policies for Photovoltaic Power Generation Projects in 2018†(hereinafter referred to as the “Noticeâ€), which explicitly reduced the PV power generation price in 2018. The “Notice†stipulates that after January 1, 2018, the photovoltaic power stations put into operation, the benchmark power prices for Class I, Class II, and Class III resource areas will be reduced to 0.55 yuan, 0.65 yuan, and 0.75 yuan per kilowatt hour, respectively, compared to the 2017 price All kWh are down 0.1 yuan. In addition, the subsidy standard for distributed photovoltaic power generation projects was lowered for the first time in four years. The notice pointed out that for the "self-use, excess Internet access" model, the full-power subsidy standard was reduced to 0.37 yuan per kilowatt-hour, which was reduced by 0.05 yuan from the current subsidy standard (0.42 yuan per kilowatt-hour). The distributed photovoltaic power generation project adopting the “full-on-line†model is executed at the price of the photovoltaic power station in the resource area where it is located. However, PV poverty alleviation projects are not within the scope of tariff reductions and subsidies. The notice pointed out that in order to proactively support PV for poverty alleviation, the benchmark price for village photovoltaic power station (0.5 MW and below) and the degree of residential power distribution for residential photovoltaic PV project are not reduced. In other words, the benchmark price of electricity in Class I, II and III resource zones of village-level photovoltaic poverty alleviation power stations is 0.65 yuan, 0.75 yuan, and 0.85 yuan per kilowatt-hour (2017 standards), and the household electricity PV subsidy standard for distributed photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects is Kilowatt-hour 0.42 yuan. “In this decline, if new PV power plants and distributed projects are to maintain their expected revenue levels, they will need to increase the amount of power generated by the project and control initial investment costs. The demand for efficient and ultra-efficient components will be further expanded in the future.†Jin Yang Liyou, general manager of Energy Technology, told the interface news reporter that PV subsidies have been declining until the cancellation is an inevitable trend. As a result, companies are forced to improve their technology, improve their efficiency, and reduce the cost of photovoltaic electricity. In 2013, China officially implemented the benchmark on-grid tariff policy for substations of photovoltaic power plants and implemented a tariff subsidy policy for distributed photovoltaic power generation projects. In accordance with the same year's regulations, in order to realize the grid parity at the earliest possible date, the benchmark on-grid tariff has been reduced year by year since 2013. According to local conditions of solar energy resources and construction costs, the country can be divided into three types of resource areas. The annual equivalent utilization hours is more than 1,600 hours for a type of resource area, and the annual equivalent utilization hours is between 1400-1600 hours for the second type of resources. Districts, the equivalent annual utilization hours between 1200-1400 hours for the three types of resource areas, respectively, the implementation of different PV benchmarking on-grid price. At that time, the initial electricity price standard in 2013 was 0.9 yuan, 0.95 yuan, and 1 yuan per kilowatt-hour. The electricity price subsidy standard for distributed photovoltaic power generation projects is 0.42 yuan per kilowatt-hour. After four years of electricity price adjustment, the latest benchmark price in 2018 has dropped by 38.89%, 31.58% and 25% respectively. Since 2014, operators have enjoyed the electricity price policy of the previous year (because the electricity price was higher in the previous year, and there are preferential prices), and they have rushed to achieve grid connection before June 30, resulting in a peculiar 630 in the photovoltaic industry. Grab tide phenomenon. The notification pointed out that PV power plant projects that were filed before 2018 and included in the management of fiscal subsidies in previous years, but were not put into operation before June 30, 2018, implemented the benchmark on-grid tariff in 2018. This means that next year Will usher in a wave of photovoltaic "grab the tide." However, this may be the last time in the photovoltaic industry to “grab the tide.†In 2019, it will completely bid farewell to “grab the tide.†The "Notice" stipulates that "since 2019, photovoltaic power generation projects that have been included in the annual management of financial subsidies will all execute the corresponding benchmark price according to the time of operation." This means that since the following year, all photovoltaic power generation projects will no longer enjoy the previous year's power price policy, and the electricity price execution standards for all projects will be determined according to the grid connection time. However, it is not yet clear whether PV poverty alleviation projects are in scope. That is to say, only in the period of 2014-2018, the photovoltaic power plant project that was included in the scale of fiscal subsidies in the previous year and was put into operation before June 30th of that year can enjoy the electricity price policy of the previous year. "There will be no '630' rush in 2019," Peng Yan, director of the policy research department of the China Recycling Economic Association's Renewable Energy Specialist Committee, confirmed to the Interfax News Reporter that this is the first time the country has made a clear provision in the form of a document.