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The increase in manufacturing facility for solar cells and modules
will bring in an investment of about Rs 30,000 crore and create 25,000 jobs in
the country."It is expected that the manufacturing capacity for cells and
modules will increase roughly by 2,500 MW and 5,000 MW per annum,
respectively.""This is expected to create 25,000 jobs in
manufacturing sector and bring in investment of about Rs 30,000 crore,"
said an official in the New and Renewable Energy Ministry.At present,
manufacturing capacity of cells and modules in India is 1,386
MW and 2,756 MW, respectively.Besides modules, solar power plants require
inverters, cables, support structures, transformers and switch gears.
The official said that the target announced by India has
generated a lot of interest amongst the manufacturers and several large
companies from various countries like the US, China, Japan, Germany, Canada
etc. and they have shown interest in setting up manufacturing facilities in the
country.Besides, the Indian manufacturers are expanding their
manufacturing capacity, he added.India has announced an ambitious
target of 100 GW of grid connected solar power project by 2022. It will help to
provide clean power to the country and boost manufacturing in a big way.The
official said that some capacity, which was non-operational due to lack of
orders, will also be revived.
India is not imposing
restrictions on import of solar equipments in order to keep price of solar
power low and keep competition alive."It is important to keep the price of
power low because the burden on high tariff is not sustainable in
the long run and consumers should not be burdened with expensive
power. With scale, the domestic manufacturing is also expected to be
competitive," the official said.While India is looking at
manufacturing capacities to feed the domestic demand, the country also looks
forward to the export market.Some Indian companies are already
exporting cells and modules, though with high competition in the market, it is
difficult for them to sell at full capacities.However, it is expected that the
market will continue to expand all over the world and Indian
products will have a good market.
In order to encourage domestic manufacturing, a provision of
domestic content requirements has been introduced in procurement of solar power
under government scheme for grid connected solar power.In the first phase of
solar mission, domestic content requirement of cells and modules made in India was
introduced.This was, however, not applied on projects using thin films, so
large quantity of thin film was imported.Thereafter, in the first batch of
second phase of the National Solar Mission, the domestic content requirement
was introduced for thin film and crystalline solar photovoltaic.Out of total
750 MW bid out, 375 MW was reserved for cells and modules made in India.
This resulted in a major boost to the manufacturing sector in India and
factories of cells and modules.
In order to continue to support domestic manufacturing, NTPCBSE
0.29 % had recently awarded 250 MW of solar capacity for cells and modules made
in India.This project is part of 1,000 MW single project being set
up by NTPC in Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh. The power major has also issued tenders
for setting up of 750 MW capacity in other parts of the country with cells and
modules made in India.Solar Corporation of India has
brought out tenders to set up 75 MW solar projects with cells and modules made
in India. Some more procurement is also in pipeline which will
boost the manufacturing sector in India.
Source: ET
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