IHS said the National Energy Administration's(NEA's) recently-published 2014 growth targets – including 18GW for wind and 10GW for PV,60% of that distributed – “indicate that the government is pursuing itsoverriding policy priorities relatively aggressively, and in some cases meetingits original targets early”.

According to IHS analystOlivia Boyd, although the targets “do not reflect any significant deviationsfrom past policy announcements” some of the goals show an “intensification” ofBeijing’s efforts.

Boyd said: “The NEA's 2014renewable energy targets are particularly notable, in part because they reflectthe fact that China has frequently built renewable energy capacity to levels inexcess of original targets.