“My roof used to sit idle anyway, but now with solar panels installed, I can get a steady sum of rental income every year without disrupting my daily life. It’s truly great!” In a village, Uncle Wang, a local villager, said happily, pointing at the solar panels on his roof. In recent years, distributed photovoltaics has been rapidly promoted in rural areas, emerging as a new engine for boosting rural revitalization. It has not only optimized the rural energy structure, but also brought tangible benefits to farming households.
Rural areas boast abundant rooftop resources and sufficient lighting conditions, giving them inherent advantages for developing distributed photovoltaic projects. Local governments across the country have promoted the implementation of such projects in rural areas through models like the “enterprise + village collective + farmer household” collaboration. Enterprises take charge of project investment, construction, operation and maintenance; village collectives and farmer households provide rooftop resources and share power generation revenues in accordance with agreed terms. In some regions, distributed photovoltaics has also been integrated with the industrial development of village collectives, where power generation proceeds are used to improve rural infrastructure and develop characteristic industries, further expanding the collective economy of villages.
In addition, the construction of rural distributed photovoltaic projects has boosted local employment, cultivating a contingent of professional talents proficient in technology and operation & maintenance. Meanwhile, the use of clean energy has effectively improved the rural ecological environment, laying a solid foundation for building ecologically livable and beautiful villages. Moving forward, relevant authorities will continue to increase support for the development of rural distributed photovoltaics, promote the implementation of more high-quality projects in rural areas, and enable green energy to better fuel rural revitalization.
