@article{Ruan2025, 
author = {Ziwen Ruan and Yuhan Wang and Xi Lu and Dan Li and Haiyan Qin and Guiyong Yu and Hua Jiang and Xiaohui Zhao and Yong Luo and Jijiang He and Yang Yu and Yunxia Zhang and Qing Wang and Haixia Wang and Zhouyi Liao and Hongyan Guo and Heng Sha and Shi Chen and Chaojun Li and Jiaxing Wang and Chongyu Zhang and Bokun Zhan and Xin Xia and Junqing Zheng and Dan Chen and Jiatong Li and Tianyu Zhang and Hualin Bai and Jie Liao and Lifang Ma and Wenbin Yang and Rongsong Zou and Shaoqing Bian and Kebin He},
title = {A systems-oriented review of China’s wind and solar power development toward carbon neutrality},
year = {2025},
journal = {Technology Review for Carbon Neutrality},
volume = {1},
pages = {9550010},
keywords = {photovoltaic (PV), Wind and solar power, concentrated solar power (CSP), forecasting technologies, energy system transformation},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.26599/TRCN.2025.9550010},
doi = {10.26599/TRCN.2025.9550010},
abstract = {Wind and solar power are central to China’s carbon neutrality strategy and energy system transformation. This review adopts a system-oriented perspective to examine the future development of wind, photovoltaic (PV), and concentrated solar power (CSP), situating technological progress within a broader framework that includes forecasting approaches, power system flexibility, energy storage integration, and sectoral coupling. It summarizes the spatial potential and projected capacity trajectories under carbon neutrality goals, with estimates suggesting a combined capacity of 5,496 to 7,662 GW of wind and solar power by 2060, constituting more than 83% of China’s total installed power capacity. While notable progress has been made in technological maturity and the reduction of power generation costs, supported by robust domestic supply chains, persistent challenges remain across technical and systemic dimensions, including limited generation efficiency, the high cost of supporting energy storage technologies, and constraints on grid flexibility and policy coordination. This review further proposes a strategic roadmap for sustainable development, emphasizing the integrated deployment of wind and solar as the dominant sources of power generation.}
}