India To Be A Global Leader in Solar & Clean Technology

[Nilgiri]

Good to work with our German, Chinese and worldwide partners in this endeavour.

 

[beijingwalker]

We can help

India’s 87 per cent solar cell imports from China
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indias-87-per-cent-solar-cell-imports-from-china-in-april-september-piyush-goyal-4417312/

China leads the world in solar power installations
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...s-the-world-in-solar-power-installations.html

 

[Nilgiri]

We can help

India’s 87 per cent solar cell imports from China
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indias-87-per-cent-solar-cell-imports-from-china-in-april-september-piyush-goyal-4417312/

China leads the world in solar power installations
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...s-the-world-in-solar-power-installations.html

The chinese gentleman (from Talesun) in the video I posted seems to have made many contacts with Indian industry to develop better local manufacturing capacity in India. Its a win-win scenario for both countries.

 

[supun1]

Solar energy is good news for sri lanka.
After two coal power plants got axed for failing the environmental impact assessment report, then to an outright ban on construction of new coal power plants, sri lanka was headed towards a major power crisis in 2018/19.

Solar means power plants don't need as long future planning, capacity can be added very quickly.

 

[srshkmr]

Solar energy is good news for sri lanka.
After two coal power plants got axed for failing the environmental impact assessment report, then to an outright ban on construction of new coal power plants, sri lanka was headed towards a major power crisis in 2018/19.

Solar means power plants don't need as long future planning, capacity can be added very quickly.

SriLanka has enough lands to do this ? Solar power plants needs lots of place to build.

 

[HariPrasad]

We can help

India’s 87 per cent solar cell imports from China
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indias-87-per-cent-solar-cell-imports-from-china-in-april-september-piyush-goyal-4417312/

China leads the world in solar power installations
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...s-the-world-in-solar-power-installations.html

Yes majority of fuel cells were imported from china. Now we are producing 30% domestically and 70% is imported. Imported components are coming down very fast with boost in local production.

 

[Nilgiri]

SriLanka has enough lands to do this ? Solar power plants needs lots of place to build.

SL and any other country can create a solar energy fund to help fund small scale solar rooftop energy. This helps to reduce load on national power grids and also democratises energy sources. The real estate is already available in this case (rooftops), no major land acquisition required (that can come under purview of more capital intensive programs in country).

There is much to learn from the German model for solar and renewable in general and tailor it to a developing country's needs.

Yes majority of fuel cells were imported from china. Now we are producing 30% domestically and 70% is imported. Imported components are coming down very fast with boost in local production.

Hi there, can you give me a link for your statement?

 

[HariPrasad]

SL and any other country can create a solar energy fund to help fund small scale solar rooftop energy. This helps to reduce load on national power grids and also democratises energy sources. The real estate is already available in this case (rooftops), no major land acquisition required (that can come under purview of more capital intensive programs in country).

There is much to learn from the German model for solar and renewable in general and tailor it to a developing country's needs.



Hi there, can you give me a link for your statement?

I had either read or listen this. I will try to provide the link soon as i get it.

 

[supun1]

SL and any other country can create a solar energy fund to help fund small scale solar rooftop energy. This helps to reduce load on national power grids and also democratises energy sources. The real estate is already available in this case (rooftops), no major land acquisition required (that can come under purview of more capital intensive programs in country).

There is much to learn from the German model for solar and renewable in general and tailor it to a developing country's needs.



Hi there, can you give me a link for your statement?

Yes, thats right.

Right now, there is already a government program providing concessional loans up to 10lhak for purchasing and installing of rooftop solar systems. The major hurdle with solar right now is the capacity factor, it's difficult to predict when it will produce power.

The solution is battery packs, which adds to a major cost in solar providing base load power. However, as of right now CEB (Ceylon Electricity Board) is paying 23Rs per unit generated from solar, so by feeding back into the grid, you can effectively use the CEB as a battery pack for now.

 

[HariPrasad]

The good part of Indian Solar Energy is that it is not dependent on big projects but you may have a plant on your roof top and government will give a heavy subsidy.

An Another revolution we observed was by way of LED lamps. An LED Lamp with a cost of less than one USD with a guarantee of 3 years has a payback period of Just 200 Hours. This is going to save 20000 MW of electricity every Hour. This will be great step in making India a electricity surplus state. Saving 20000 MW is equal to saving a capital cost of Rs 1.5 LAKh Crore i.e around 23 bn USD investment and saving in operation cost of 20 crore USD in operation cost every year. All this with just one government initiative of LED. In pondicheri peak hour scarcity of electricity disappear because of LED.

 

[proud_indian]

@Nilgiri @HariPrasad

Solar PV Manufacturing

GoI has recently revised the national target for solar power from 20 GW to 100 GW and to be achieved by 2022. This target triggers the demand for large scale manufacturing of Solar PV components.

The “Make in India” initiative of the Government of India also provides necessary boost to the local manufacturing of Solar Cells in India. The Solar mission and Make in India initiatives are aimed at establishing country as a solar manufacturing hub, to feed both growing domestic industry as well as global markets.

Adani Group is setting up a Manufacturing facility to produce 1000MWp/yr of Silicon Ingots/ wafers, Silicon Solar Cells, Modules along with 3000 MWp support manufacturing facilities that includes EVA, Back-sheet, Glass, Junction box and Solar cell and string interconnect ribbon in 3 phases as below.

• Phase 1 (By Dec 2016): A 1000MWp of Solar cells and Modules manufacturing plant.
• Phase 2 (By Dec 2017): A 1000MWp equivalent Ingots and wafers manufacturing plant and 3000 MWp support manufacturing facilities that includes EVA, Back-sheet, Glass, Junction box and Solar cell and string interconnect ribbon
• Phase 3 :Technology augmentation of cell and manufacturing capacity leading to a capacity of 1080 MWp.

“At this level of production, this plant will be the largest vertically integrated producer of Ingots/Wafers, Solar Cells and Modules in India and well supported by manufacturing units of critical components designed to achieve maximum efficiency in the Indian market”.

The proposed Solar PV manufacturing facility within EMC facility will be the first to be located in an SEZ under the M-SIPS scheme.


http://www.adanienterprises.com/businesses/renewable-energy/solar-pv-manufacturing

 

[Godman]

SriLanka has enough lands to do this ? Solar power plants needs lots of place to build.

New 10MW solar power plant construction to kick-off tomorrow
LBO
Posted on January 20, 2017 | In Pictures, Power

The foundation stone laying ceremony of a new 10MW solar power plant in Raṇamayurapura, Hambantota will be held tomorrow with the participation of Power Minister and offcials.

New plant will be built under the Soorya Bala Sangramaya (Battle for Solar Energy) project of Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority with the private sector investment.

Power Ministry seeks to promote the setting up of small solar power plants on the rooftops of households, religious places, hotels, commercial establishments and industries through this project.

It is expected to add 200 MW of solar electricity to the national grid by 2020 and 1000 MW by 2025 through this intervention
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/new-10mw-solar-power-plant-construction-to-kick-off-tomorrow/

The most suitable areas for Solar plants are alos the least populated

In addition we are putting Solar panels on top of all Government buildings and also encouraging people to put solar panels on rooftops

Sri Lanka to expedite grid connections for roof top solar: PUCSL
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Posted on January 25, 2017 | Featured, Power

Jan 25, 2017 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s power regulator has directed the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and Lanka Electricity Company Private Limited (LECO) to connect domestic rooftop solar plants to the national grid within two weeks from the date of application.

“The direction to provide the connection for rooftop solar plants to the national grid in an efficient manner within a time fame will encourage people to move for solar power,” Damitha Kumarasinghe, director general of the Public Utilites Commission of Sri Lanka said.

“Among the non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE) sources, rooftop solar PV is considered as one of the fastest technologies to install and integrate into the grid.”

Sri Lanka aims to add 200 MW of solar electricity to the national grid by 2020 and 1,000 MW by the year 2025.

The government’s “Soorya Bala Sangramaya” (energy battle) programme is one such strategy supporting future energy requirement. So far Sri Lanka has added about 42 megawatts of capacity to the national grid through domestic rooftop solar plants by end 2016.

To ensure completion of the grid connection and signing the Net metering, Net accounting or Net Plus agreements within the below mentioned time frame, PUCSL stipulated that:

1.Maximum acceptable time to provide the estimate for net meter installation shall be one week from the date of submission of the duly filled net metering application with the relevant application fee.

2.Maximum acceptable time to provide net meter installation and grid connection with signing the agreement shall be one week from receiving the payment for net meter installation.

Sri Lanka has 7,904 domestic rooftop solar plants that are installed and connected to the national grid, data up to Novemeber 2016 reveals.

http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/sri-lanka-to-expedite-grid-connections-for-roof-top-solar-pucsl/

 

[proud_indian]

Major shift in c-Si solar cell equipment spending to emerge in 2017

Jan 25, 2017 10:42 AM GMT

By Finlay Colville, Head of Solar Intelligence, Solar Media


Finlay Colville joined Solar Media in June 2015 as head of the new Solar Intelligence activities. Until October 2014, he was vice president and head of solar at NPD Solarbuzz. Widely recognised as a leading authority on the solar PV industry, he has presented at almost every solar conference and event worldwide, and has authored hundreds of technical blogs and articles in the past few years. He holds a BSc in Physics and a PhD in nonlinear photonics.

The shift of cell manufacturing to Southeast Asia became a focus for Chinese module suppliers with global supply aspirations, needing to have cells and modules produced outside China and Taiwan, in order to avoid anti-dumping related import tariffs to Europe and the US. Image: LG

Capital expenditure (capex) for solar cell manufacturing is to see increased contributions in 2017 from Vietnam, India and Thailand, expanding the global footprint of cell manufacturing outside China across different countries in the Asia region.

This is one of the key takeaways from the new release of the PV Manufacturing & Technology Quarterly report by the in-house market research division of PV-Tech’s parent company, Solar Media Ltd.

The themes are also highly topical as they form a key part of the PV CellTech conference in Penang, Malaysia on 14-15 March 2017, where CTOs and Heads of R&D from the leading wafer and cell producers will be on stage talking about their company’s technologies and roadmaps.

The shift of cell manufacturing to Southeast Asia became a focus for Chinese module suppliers with global supply aspirations, needing to have cells and modules produced outside China and Taiwan, in order to avoid anti-dumping related import tariffs to Europe and the US.

Here is the graphic (below) that shows very clearly what has been happening with cell capex, where the underlying data is derived bottom-up from a detailed analysis across more than 100 companies shaping the landscape of cell production and shipments today.

The geographic breakdown of c-Si cell capex for 2015 to 2017, revealing a broader range of countries across Asia where solar cells will be produced from 2017 onwards.

Capex in 2015 was still dominated by China, as domestic demand for solar cells was kept strong by local market activity. A huge portion of the China 2015 and 2016 cell capex was from Chinese cell and module producers that have no presence outside China. Much of the equipment spending here went purely to Chinese based tool suppliers, now covering Chinese made screen-printers, with Maxwell Technologies taking significant business in China that a few years ago was owned mainly by the Baccini operations of Applied Materials. Diffusion furnaces, PECVD and wet benches for many of the China-only companies are also a local affair.

In 2015, Malaysia became the big focus for Chinese companies (and some Taiwanese) to set up cell production in Southeast Asia. It was an obvious first choice, benefiting from the infrastructure and resources built around SunPower, Panasonic, Hanwha Q-CELLS and clusters of semiconductor manufacturers. This provided a strong uptick for cell capex from Malaysia, with European and US-based tool suppliers being the main beneficiaries.

2016 saw the first moves of activity from Vietnam, Thailand and India for new cell capex growth. The dynamics of each are very different, with some companies operating analogous to parent-owned job-shops, under a local name, and on the back of Chinese investment and control. Others appear to be more autonomous, albeit operating at arm’s-length from the OEM customers whose business is their very survival.

India is an altogether different proposition, with Adani doing what many had spoken about in India for the past 10 years, and many Chinese had said they wanted to do – set up a custom-built GW+ cell and module fab. Mundra puts India on the cell manufacturing roadmap in 2017, and this will help every other cell producer in India, not hinder them.

Korea of course operates with a different agenda to other countries in the region, and the spending uptick tends to come from strong investments from domestic industrial powerhouses, aligned with R&D and know-how staying firmly in the country. Within this category, we have LG Electronics. Expansions by LG Electronics don’t come cheap, and back-contact cells in mass production are far from easy as we know. So 2017 could see downward revisions from Korea, compared to what is shown.

But from the graph above, it seems there are going to be seven major countries driving PV cell capex during 2017: a far cry from 2010 when all roads led to China and Taiwan. It is also one of the single biggest outcomes from the initial petition filed in the US to examine claims of anti-dumping for modules being shipped from China to the US.
Similar to the cell capex above, a full analysis of polysilicon, ingot, wafer, module and thin-film capex has been done by our research team and features in the latest PV Manufacturing & Technology Quarterly report, released this week.

One of the sessions at PV CellTech in Penang, 14-15 March 2017, has also been set aside for presentations from the leading cell manufacturers from India, Vietnam and Thailand, and where we have Adani, Boviet Solar, IndoSolar and Talesun among the key speakers. Almost every other major cell producer across Southeast Asia will be speaking at PV CellTech.

http://www.pv-tech.org/editors-blog...lar-cell-equipment-spending-to-emerge-in-2017

 

[HariPrasad]

& we are busy in metro project on which there is no return. I am pretty much sure we have the most load shedding in south asia but our priority lies somewhere else.

I heard on one pakistani TV discussion that Quaide Azam solar power plant is there in pakistan which produces Electricity at a rate of 21 pnr per unit.

 

[HariPrasad]

@Nilgiri @HariPrasad

Solar PV Manufacturing

GoI has recently revised the national target for solar power from 20 GW to 100 GW and to be achieved by 2022. This target triggers the demand for large scale manufacturing of Solar PV components.

The “Make in India” initiative of the Government of India also provides necessary boost to the local manufacturing of Solar Cells in India. The Solar mission and Make in India initiatives are aimed at establishing country as a solar manufacturing hub, to feed both growing domestic industry as well as global markets.

Adani Group is setting up a Manufacturing facility to produce 1000MWp/yr of Silicon Ingots/ wafers, Silicon Solar Cells, Modules along with 3000 MWp support manufacturing facilities that includes EVA, Back-sheet, Glass, Junction box and Solar cell and string interconnect ribbon in 3 phases as below.

• Phase 1 (By Dec 2016): A 1000MWp of Solar cells and Modules manufacturing plant.
• Phase 2 (By Dec 2017): A 1000MWp equivalent Ingots and wafers manufacturing plant and 3000 MWp support manufacturing facilities that includes EVA, Back-sheet, Glass, Junction box and Solar cell and string interconnect ribbon
• Phase 3 :Technology augmentation of cell and manufacturing capacity leading to a capacity of 1080 MWp.

“At this level of production, this plant will be the largest vertically integrated producer of Ingots/Wafers, Solar Cells and Modules in India and well supported by manufacturing units of critical components designed to achieve maximum efficiency in the Indian market”.

The proposed Solar PV manufacturing facility within EMC facility will be the first to be located in an SEZ under the M-SIPS scheme.


http://www.adanienterprises.com/businesses/renewable-energy/solar-pv-manufacturing

Exactly. Traditional power generation has many draw backs. It not only consumes resources, It pour in a huge amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is biggest consumer of water. Solar power saves this all. You can save huge amount of water which can be used in farming and making this planet better. You can effectively fight with global warming.