India As an Emerging Solar Manufacturing Country

During the last two years, several policy initiatives by the Government of India have created significant industry interest to enhance solar manufacturing in India across the value chain of silicon from polysilicon to modules, as well as thin film solar modules. It is expected that India will be manufacturing about 100–110 GW of solar modules per year by 2027. This will not only be consistent with India's stated deployment goal of 500 GW of ‘non-fossil fuel’ electricity capacity by 2030, but will leave enough capacity for global export. This paper describes the present status of solar manufacturing in India.