Interest in electric vehicles (EVs) is getting super hot in India. Having missed out on building its own manufacturing base for solar PV, India seems conscious about not missing the EV opportunity, especially for lithium-ion battery manufacturing (LIB).
Originally published on Sustainnovate. India’s massive solar power capacity addition target is expected to be a revolution in the Indian jobs market as well. According to a report by the Natural Resources and Defense Council (NRDC), India may end up creating over a million new jobs in its endeavour to … [continued]
Russia has become the latest company to join hands with India to help the latter achieve its massive solar power targets. The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) and Russian Energy Agency (REA) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up large scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects … [continued]
With a massive solar power installed capacity target of 100 GW by 2022, the Indian Government is looking to promote and expand local manufacturing capacity for polysilicon ingots and wafers. The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has called for comments from stakeholders regarding its plan to provide support for … [continued]
Trina Solar, the world’s largest solar panel manufacturer, has announced collaboration with India’s Welspun Energy to build a 2 GW solar manufacturing facility in India. The 1 GW PV cell manufacturing facility and a 1GW module manufacturing plant will cost about $500 million, with construction planned in two phases over a period of … [continued]
The Indian state of Gujarat was the first to plan for solar power, but those plans have stalled because of political challenges that have arisen.
The “Make in India” campaign has its first major project in the solar energy business, as SunEdison and Adani Enterprises have agreed to set up a solar photovoltaic module manufacturing plant in Gujarat. The proposed plant will require an estimated investment of $4 billion and will be India’s largest solar … [continued]
Switzerland-based Meyer Burger is looking to tap opportunities in solar energy worth billions of dollars in India. The company is a solutions provider to manufacturers of solar cells and solar photovoltaic modules. Meyer Burger hopes to capture business opportunities that would emerge from the planned addition of thousands of gigawatts … [continued]
Chinese solar photovoltaic module manufacturers are facing anti-dumping investigations from almost all major solar power markets from Australia to the US. As a result, many manufacturers are looking for alternatives that would allow them to escape possible anti-dumping duties. Encouraged by the “Make In India” campaign launched by Indian Prime … [continued]
India has been taking notes from Germany to achieve its mega renewable energy targets. This can be seen from the push rooftop solar has been receiving, and also discussions to introduce a fixed feed-in tariff for utility-scale solar power. But there’s more. Mr. Upendra Tripathy (Secretary, Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) … [continued]
