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Ready, Set, Go: India’s Solar Manufacturing Ambitions Are Flying

For India’s solar sector and its many entrepreneurs, all signals are finally green. Or so it would seem. Be it progress on manufacturing plans, including the all important backward integration, exports, and of course, a strong domestic market for their output. Everything has come together for the many firms and entrepreneurs who will hope for […]

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SECI Announces Tender for 1000 MWp Domestically Manufactured Solar Modules

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has issued a tender for the manufacturing, testing, packing and forwarding, supply and transportation of 1000 MWp domestically manufactured solar PV modules with domestically manufactured solar cells. The last date for submission of bids is August 17, 2023. The time for completion for the entire 1000 MWp (DC) […]

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Have FTA Routes Become Conduits For Cheaper Solar Modules into India?

Export-related data has revealed that during April and May of this fiscal year, the quantum of imports of solar modules from countries with which India has a free trade agreement (FTA) has increased significantly, with a 48% share of total solar imports. The sharp move is beginning to hurt domestic manufacturers yet again, as they […]

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Indian Firm Devises Furnace That Can Help To Produce Efficient Solar Cell

A Bangalore-based company with expertise in producing thin film and vacuum technology now claims to have made a revamped furnace that can aid in reducing the price of solar PV module manufacturing in the country and make efficient solar cells.  The firm named Hind High Vacuum (HHV) has now made a “directional solidification (DSS) furnace.” […]

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Module Prices Near Bottom, As Cell Prices See First Hike In Months

Solar Module prices from China, which dictate prices around the world, finally seem close to a bottom for now, after a relentless fall in 2023.  The earliest indicators come in the form of solar cell prices, which saw a weekly increase of 1.5% to 2% this week This happened even as mono grade Polysilicon prices, […]

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India Starts Anti-Dumping Probe on Aluminum Solar Frames Imported from China

India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, months after it put an end to the anti-dumping investigation into solar cells from China, Thailand and Vietnam in December 2022 seems set to start a fresh investigation. This time on the import of aluminium frames for solar modules. The anti-dumping investigation will look into aluminum frames for solar […]

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Polysilicon Prices Continue Slide, Developers Hopeful Of Lower Solar Module Prices

For all the record capacity additions and installations in solar power, polysilicon prices have continued their downward move, halfway into 2023. Rising polysilicon prices, Prices that had peaked at CNY (Chinese Yuan) 360,000/mt ($39/kg) have dropped to as low as 80,000 CNY/Mt (around $9.5 /kg), helping push down solar panel costs for manufacturers. Even as […]

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As Solar Panel Prices Drop to $0.2/W and Below, Chinese Majors Unfazed On Expansion Plans

Even as module prices fell below the widely watched $0.2/W levels in China, the biggest integrated manufacturers continue to move ahead on their expansion plans. Tongwei, the Chengdu-based food and aquaculture firm that was happy to stop at cell manufacturing until a little over a year back, has moved aggressively into module manufacturing in the […]

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MNRE Clarifies No Plan To Cut Import Duty On Solar Panels

Following news reports that the government plans to cut import duty on solar panels, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has seen it fit to clarify that no such plans are in the offing. The news reports, carried by news agency Reuters as well as many Indian news outlets, had claimed that the […]

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