On the industrial roofs of Suzhou, photovoltaic panels are continuously outputting green electricity. As of August 2026, the cumulative installed capacity of distributed photovoltaic power generation in the local area has exceeded 8 million kilowatts, reaching 8.4585 million kilowatts, ranking first in Jiangsu Province in terms of scale, providing a new sample for the green transformation of the manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta.

Industrial clusters generate momentum for installed capacity growth

As a city with a high concentration of industrial carriers, Suzhou has a large number of industrial parks and rooftop resources for enterprise factories. Market entities have a strong desire for green transformation, and the distributed photovoltaic industry has rapidly formed a development pattern of government enterprise coordination and comprehensive promotion.

Many local manufacturing enterprises rely on idle roofs to layout photovoltaic projects, and the national level specialized and new small giant enterprise New Dawn Technology has successively built two phases of 1 MW and 1.45 MW plant photovoltaic projects, achieving self use of electricity, synchronously reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions, and creating a two-way development path of independent application and external investment. Distributed photovoltaics, with its natural advantage of flexible site selection and nearby consumption, have become the core focus of energy-saving transformation in local industrial parks and urban and rural areas.

Open up grid connection bottlenecks through grid services

The continuous expansion of distributed photovoltaic installed capacity and the centralized grid connection of massive projects have raised higher requirements for the carrying capacity and consumption level of the power grid. In 2026, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power will prioritize optimizing the integration of new energy into the grid as one of the ten key tasks for the benefit of the people. Suzhou Power Supply Company will simultaneously coordinate the safe operation of the power grid and the high-quality development of new energy, strengthen grid construction around customer needs, optimize photovoltaic grid connection services throughout the entire process, implement multiple measures that benefit the people and enterprises, and ensure efficient and compliant integration of various distributed photovoltaic projects into the grid. Keywords: distributed photovoltaics, new energy projects

The rapid growth of distributed photovoltaics in Suzhou, from scattered pilot projects to large-scale clusters of 8 million kilowatts, is essentially the result of the synergy between industrial foundation, market willingness, and grid services. The green power transformation practice of this industrial city is providing a replicable reference path for the large-scale popularization of distributed photovoltaics in China.Editor/Cheng Liting