Faced with the increasingly fierce international competition, climate change and other global challenges, it is more important for national governments to take the analysis on patent intelligence of solar energy technology one step further. Based on Innography patent information retrieval platform, this paper analyzed the competition pattern and development trend in patents for global solar energy technology from the aspect of patent country, application country, IPC distribution and patent rights. A comparative study was conducted on the technology layout in Chinese market between local technology developers and global technology developers. It is of great interest to discover the competition trends in patents for global solar energy and hot technology layout, on which this paper evaluated from the competitive environment, competitors, competitive technology and international strategy.