Adani to make silicon ingots for solar power production |
Indian Billionaire Gautam Adani owned Adani Solar on December 21, introduced India`s first large-sized monocrystalline silicon ingot. Inaugurated by Gautam Adani at its Mundra facility recently, the monocrystalline ingots will drive indigenization to produce renewable electricity from silicon-based PV modules with efficiencies ranging from 21-24 percent. Adani Solar is the first company in India to complete the backward integration of ingot line infrastructure in a record time of about seven months, making significant progress towards the goal of energy swaraj. The new manufacturing line will produce silicon ingots exclusively for its solar wafers, cells, and modules production. With this, Adani Solar becomes the sole producer of large-sized monocrystalline silicon ingots in India which shall be a critical link in the photovoltaic crystalline silicon industry value chain and drive towards a self-reliant India in the near future, the company said. While the company`s initial production has already begun, it intends to add 2 GW of ingot and wafer capacity by the end of 2023. By 2025, it will scale up to 10 GW, it added. With a ramp-up in its annual production capacity of solar PV cells and modules from 1.2 GW in 2017 to 4GW in 2022, Adani Solar remains India`s first, largest, and most vertically integrated manufacturer.
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