The European Commission announced on the 28th to start the anti-dumping investigation on Chinese solar glass. According to the relevant regulations of the European Union, the European Commission intends to make a preliminary ruling nine months after the investigation and decide whether to impose temporary anti-dumping duties on the products involved.

The EU announced that the EU solar glass market has a value of at least 200 million euros, and the investigation was at the request of the European Association of Solar Glass Manufacturing Enterprises. So far there has been no anti-subsidy appeal against solar glass products from China.
The State Grid announced on the 27th "Opinions on Providing on Grid Connection Service for Distributed Power Source”; and set very clearly defined standards for distributed energy. The document also include solar, natural gas, biomass, wind energy, geothermal energy, ocean energy, integrated resource power generation and other types of energy within the range of distributed power sources. The formal implementation of the policy will start from 1st of March.

The National Development and Reform Commission recently announced a "revised version" of the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalog" and amended 36 entries in the directory published in 2011. As for the entry of new energy, two items were added, namely “offshore wind turbine technology development and equipment manufacturing” and “offshore wind construction and equipment manufacturing”, thus greatly enhancing the development of large scale offshore wind power.

Deputy Secretary Liu Qi of the National Energy Board chaired a forum on the development of offshore wind power on the 22nd of February. He believed we must fully grasp the importance and urgency in the development of offshore wind farms and make the promotion of large scale offshore wind farm a priority task. The 5 key tasks are as follows: to build those offshore wind power projects already approved, to coordinate various mechanisms, to benchmark price policy, to industrialize the service system, and to engage in international cooperation.