India Headed For 20.7 GW Polysilicon Capacity: Minister of State For Power

India has added 48.3GW of complete and certain degree of solar PV modules, which have been integrated into the manufacturing capacity. The integration comes at 37.5 GW of ingot and wafer manufacturing capacity.   Much of this capacity has been awarded, and it comes under the PLI scheme to sustain solar manufacturing.  

 The Indian government is investing around 24000cr in the PLI scheme ( Production linked incentive); this scheme will be beneficial for High-efficiency solar PV Modules and will increase the domestic production capacity of Gigawatt (GW) scale in efficiency solar PV modules for renewable energy. 

 The scheme comes with an investment pledges of rs 4500 cr,  and the scheme implementation has two phases; tranche-i has awarded Letters of Award for the establishment of 8,737 MW of fully integrated solar PV module manufacturing facilities. Letters of Award for the establishment of 39,600 MW of fully/partially integrated solar PV module manufacturing facilities have been awarded for Tranche-II, with an expenditure of Rs. 19,500 crore. 

The minister stated, “The installed Ingot and Wafer manufacturing capacity in the country is around 2 GW. At present there is no commercial production of Polysilicon in the country. The aforesaid manufacturing capacity of solar PV cells and modules includes around 3.2 GW of fully integrated  solar PV module manufacturing capacity (By First Solar) , which is not dependent on imported Solar Cells, Wafers, and Polysilicon, as the manufacturing process is fully integrated and all the major steps involved in the manufacturing process, taking place in India.”