Moser Baer – A good case study of what went wrong with Indian Solar PV Manufacturing

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Recently, I chanced upon an article in Forbes India which profiles Deepak Puri, Executive Director of Moser Baer, one of India’s largest PV manufacturers. This article chronicles Moser Baer’s entry into solar PV manufacturing and how the industry dynamics destroyed the solar division of this illustrious company. The following passages in the article sum up […]

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Solar PV manufacturing – consolidation continues..

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Another day, another PV company folds up. MiaSolé, which was considered a promising CIGS PV manufacturer, has been bought by China’s Hanergy last week. Interestingly, Hanergy also bought Solibro, another CIGS manufacturer, from Q-cells. According to GTM research, this move by Hanergy is very curious because there are hardly any synergies between these two companies.

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Intersolar India – Day 1 ( Part 1)

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(This post originally appeared on EAI Blog –http://www.eai.in/blog/2010/12/intersolar-india-day-1-part-1.html. It was contributed by Madhavan Nampoothiri, Founder & Director of RESolve Energy Consultants on 15 December 2010.) This is a season of International conferences for the Renewable Energy industry in India. If it was DIREC 2010 in New Delhi late October 2010, it is the turn of

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Intersolar India- Day 1( Part 2)

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(This post originally appeared on EAI Blog –http://www.eai.in/blog/2010/12/intersolar-day-1part-2.html. It was contributed by Madhavan Nampoothiri, Founder & Director of RESolve Energy Consultants on 15 December 2010.) The interSolar, the world’s leading exhibition of the solar industry, started its Indian leg on December 13,2010 at The Leela Kempinski in Mumbai. The opening session of the event had eminent personalities

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Intersolar India- Day 2

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(This post originally appeared on EAI Blog –http://www.eai.in/blog/2010/12/intersolar-india-day-2.html. It was contributed by Madhavan Nampoothiri, Founder & Director of RESolve Energy Consultants on 16 December 2010.) This is my third post on the Intersolar India conference and Exhibition held in Mumbai between 13 and 16 December, 2010. My blogs on the Day 1 of the conference

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Intersolar India- Day 3

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(This post originally appeared on EAI Blog –http://www.eai.in/blog/2010/12/intersolar-india-day-3.html. It was contributed by Madhavan Nampoothiri, Founder & Director of RESolve Energy Consultants on 17 December 2010.) Welcome to my fourth and final post on the Intersolar India conference and Exhibition held in Mumbai between 13 and 16 December, 2010. My blogs on the Day 1 and

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MNRE Revises The Capital Subsidy For Off-Grid And Decentralised Solar Applications

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(This post originally appeared on EAI Blog –http://www.eai.in/blog/2011/02/mnre-revises-the-capital-subsidy-for-off-grid-and-decentralised-solar-applications.html. It was contributed by Madhavan Nampoothiri, Founder & Director of RESolve Energy Consultants on 24 February 2011.) The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has revised the benchmark cost of the solar PV system and the capital subsidy w.e.f 2011. At present(2010-11), the benchmark cost is Rs.

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