Manufacturing

Can Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan help India’s solar manufacturing sector? – ORF

Manufacturing, Policy, Solar PV /

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aggressive push for ‘Make in India’ to bolster domestic manufacturing and make its economy ‘self-reliant’ in the post-pandemic era is a welcome opportunity for India’s solar energy sector. Supply disruptions from China due to coronavirus outbreak and subsequent shortage of solar components and modules have impacted India’s ambitious energy target of […]

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India’s Module and Cell Manufacturing capacity at about 8 GW and 3 GW – MNRE

Manufacturing, Solar, Solar PV /

Adani Group is the Number One solar cell and module manufacturing company in India as of 31 December 2016, and it is also the only Indian company to have more than 1 GW of cell and module manufacturing capacity as per MNRE. There is however a catch. According to MNRE, the cell and manufacturing capacity

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India’s Operational PV Manufacturing capacity – 297 MW for cells, 1304 MW for Modules – MNRE

Manufacturing, Solar, Solar PV /

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) today released the list of 52 PV manufacturers in the country. While the installed cell manufacturing capacity is 1386 MW, the operational capacity is only 297 MW. Similarly, the nameplate PV module manufacturing capacity is 2756 MW, but the operational capacity is less than half of this capacity(1304

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First Solar PV module performance in India higher than predicted – Sujoy Ghosh, First Solar

Gujarat, Manufacturing, Plant Performance, Regulation, Solar PV /

In an interview with Intersolar India, Sujoy Ghosh, Country Head, India, First Solar has shared that First Solar PV modules have been performing beyond expectations and that the CdTe thin film technology of First Solar has proved to provide more energy yield in Indian conditions as compared to polycrystalline technology. He attributes the higher yield

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First Solar+GE Vs Solar Frontier Vs Hanergy – The last men standing?

5 Comments / Global, Manufacturing, Markets, Solar PV /

In April 2012, I had the opportunity to present on the topic at an event in Germany about the reasons for dominance of Thin Films in India(view the presentation here) but there were already indications that Thin Film technology was losing momentum across the world at a significantly fast pace. Solyndra went bankrupt in August

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