Due to the supply disruption of Solar Modules from China due to a global pandemic which is COVID 19, opens a door for Indian solar manufacturer to ramp up their productions which can fulfill the need of the panels required within India, however this is not as simple as it looks, it needs a long term strategy and Policies concerning the cost and ease of Solar module manufacturing.
Till 2011 India controlled the 70-80% of Global supply of Solar module, but today its completely opposite, 80 to 90% of Solar modules are imported as Indian solar module are not cost effective, which simply means they are costly, they are costly due to the non availability of subsidy from government and lack of strategic Policy's.
Tata Power Solar Managing director chief executive Ashish khanna told PTI that "COVID 19 pandemic is a wake up call for us, we must focus on domestic manufacturing to happen that we need long term business proposition"
he also mentioned in his note that "We have world class technology but we dont have scale like China. for business to succeed we need a policy framework that ensures long term off takes at sustainable prices".
Vikram Solar Chief executive saibaba vutukuri underlines the need of solar production within India "the vision of 100GW solar capacity by 2022 is good and achievable but to meet the targets we need to push local production and reduce the dependency on imports and for that we need a strong policy framework so that we can take our position back globally".
he also added to his note that "we need to learn a lesson from china realising the huge potential China changed its focus form generating to manufacturing of solar modules and set up large plants that offered them to economies scale up helping it lower the cost and capture the global market".
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