Reliance, Tata Power, Among Others Win In Round II Of Solar Module PLI
In India, no company manufactures polysilicon, which is raw material in solar equipment manufacturing
Shreya Jai Business Standard New DelhiListen to This Article
Leading energy-sector players have been allotted sums in different categories in the second tranche of the solar PLI (production-linked incentive) scheme.
The highest amount, Rs 3,300 crore, has gone to Indosol Solar, a special purpose vehicle of Shirdi Sai, which was one of the winners in the first tranche of solar PLI also.
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), which has got Rs 3,098 crore, follows.
The newest entrant is US-based solar-panel maker First Solar, which, along with RIL and Indosol, will construct end-to-end polysilicon-wafer-cells-modules (PWCM).
In India, no company manufactures polysilicon, which is raw material in solar equipment manufacturing.
First Solar is Nasdaq-listed and has been operating in India as a supplier for close to 10 years. This would be the company’s first manufacturing facility in India.
Shirdi Sai, which is an incumbent from phase-I, is based in Andhra Pradesh and involved in manufacturing power transmission and distribution equipment.
According to PLI guidelines for the second phase, of the corpus of Rs 19,000 crore, the highest tranche of Rs 12,000 crore has been allotted to end-to-end PWCM manufacturing (raw material to finished products). Unlike the first round, this phase of solar PLI has three schemes – PWCM, wafer-cells-modules (WCM), with an allocation of Rs 4,500 crore, and “cells-modules” (CM) with Rs 3,500 crore.
In the WCM category, Mumbai-based Waaree Energies, Avaada Ventures, ReNew Power, JSW Energy, and Grew Energy won. In the CM category, they were Kolkata-based Vikram Solar, Amplus Solar, and Tata Power Solar.
The manufacturing facility capacity allocated under the current tranche is 39.6 Gw with an allocation of Rs 13,937 crore.
In a public statement, R K Singh, Union minister for power, new and renewable energy, said: “The PLI scheme has proved to be a watershed in India’s renewable landscape, resulting in around 48 GW domestic module manufacturing capacity in three years. The scheme has boosted the government’s efforts to reduce not only the impact of the global supply chain shocks but also our import dependence adhering to the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat.”
There were 11 bidders in the second phase. A major absence was Adani Enterprises, which was a winner in the first phase for 4 Gw of solar module manufacturing.
The corpus was increased to Rs 19,500 crore in the Union Budget 2022-23 to accommodate the large number of bids. The nodal agency for the second tranche is Solar Energy Corporation of India. It was the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency earlier.
First Published: Mar 28 2023 | 5:11 PM IST
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