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Waaree Energies on Friday said it has signed a USD 176 million agreement with a US-based independent power producer to supply 586 MW solar modules. The modules will be manufactured at Waaree Solar Americas' facility in Brookshire, Texas, and are scheduled for delivery during FY 202627 across four projects, a company statement said. "This agreement reflects Waaree's unwavering commitment to building a resilient, robust, and technologically advanced clean energy supply chain in the US," said Sunil Rathi, President, Waaree Solar Americas. In January, Mumbai-headquartered Waaree Energies announced starting commercial production of solar modules at its manufacturing facility in the US. Waaree Energies is India's leading renewable energy company having an installed capacity of 15 GW for solar PV modules globally (including 1.3 GW of Indosolar and 1.6 GW in Texas, USA). The company also has 1.4 GW of cell manufacturing facility with an expansion capacity of 5.4 GW.
Solar equipment maker Waaree on Tuesday said it will ramp up its module manufacturing capacity to 12 GW by March 2023 from the existing nine GW. Waaree, a leading solar panel manufacturer, currently, has a 9 GW module manufacturing facility operational. Further, the company is setting up additional module manufacturing capacity, which will take its module manufacturing capacity to 12 GW for a 650-watt module by March 2023, a company statement. This will be the largest module manufacturing capacity in the world outside China, it added. Waaree is the lone manufacturer in India approved by ALMM (Approved List of Models and Manufacturers) to ship high-wattage panels -- 650WP along with 600WP and 540WP -- from its manufacturing facilities in Surat, Chikhli, Tumb and Nandigram. With the addition of Indo solar, modules will be made at Greater Noida in NCR for the domestic market in Q3 of 2022, the company said. Waaree has emerged as the leading supplier of solar modules as per a report b
In a Q&A, Gyanesh Chaudhary dwells on the gaps in the PLI scheme for solar projects and his company's current and future plans in this space
NHPC on Tuesday signed an initial pact with Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) to set up a large capacity solar equipment manufacturing facility. "A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between NHPC and BEL...for setting up of gigawatt scale vertically integrated solar manufacturing unit," a BSE filing said. The MoU was signed by Biswajit Basu, Director (Projects), NHPC and Vinay Kumar Katyal, Director (Bangalore Complex), BEL. State-owned hydro power giant NHPC has an installation base of 7071.2 MW from 24 power stations including two projects in JV mode. It is engaged in the construction of 11 projects aggregating to a total installed capacity of 7,539 MW. During 2021-22, NHPC power stations achieved generation of 24,855 MU (million units). Last fiscal, NHPC reported Rs 8,181 crore as income from sale of power with a net profit of Rs 3,538 crore.
Business prospects of domestic solar original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will remain strong aided by several policy measures over medium-term, rating agency Icra said. As a result, many domestic OEMs have announced sizeable capital expenditure to augment the cell and module capacity, including the capex for integrated facilities under PLI scheme by the winning bidders. However, it stated that timely commissioning and ramping up of ongoing capex in module manufacturing value chain remains a critical factor in the near to medium-term. As a result, adequacy of the modules from the domestic OEMs to meet the demand in utility & non-utility segment as well as quality of such modules remains a monitorable. "The policy focus by Government of India in the renewable energy (RE) sector remains strong as also evident from the policy target of 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based capacity by CY 2030 as well as policy direction in the energy transition with net zero emission target by 2070," ...