China's Solar Energy Poverty Alleviation Program

Recognizing the potential of renewable energy in addressing poverty in some of its impoverished areas, the NEA and the State Council jointly issued a work plan to implement the Solar Energy Poverty Alleviation Program (SEPAP) in 2014. The 6-year program aimed to install over 10 GW of capacity and benefit more than 2 million households from around 35,000 villages across the country by 2020. The program supported high-poverty counties and rural villages primarily through small-scale solar projects, typically ranging from 100 kW to 300 kW.

As of May 2023, the Global Solar Power Tracker had identified the following projects associated with the SEPAP: