Surat-based Navitas Solar has entered Zambia with its first utility-scale EPC project — a ₹200 crore, 54 MW captive solar plant in Serenje Province for a mining company via its arm Navitas Planet. The move marks the company’s shift from supplying modules to executing projects in Africa, a market long dominated by Chinese firms, with Indian players like Sterling & Wilson and Jakson Green also expanding there. #Exports #Solar

Tata Power will begin building a ₹6,600 crore, 10-GW solar wafer and ingot plant in Odisha this October, with the first 5-GW phase set to start in January 2028 and the second six months later; the company chose Odisha for lower costs and incentives, while also exploring nuclear energy projects in Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Gujarat, alongside its existing 4.3-GW solar facility. #Solar

India’s renewable energy ministry is planning to roll out a PLI scheme worth ₹24,000 crore to boost domestic production of polysilicon and high-efficiency solar PV modules, aiming to reduce import dependence and strengthen the country’s renewable energy supply chain in line with its ambitious clean energy targets. #MakeinIndia #Solar

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Vikram Solar has inaugurated a 6 GW solar module manufacturing facility at Gangaikondan, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.

The plant will produce high-efficiency n-type TOPCon modules and also plans to add cell, wafer, and ingot capacity to become a fully integrated campus.

With this, Vikram Solar’s total module capacity goes to 15.5 GW, supporting the Make in India push for renewable manufacturing. #Solar #MakeinIndia

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Agastya Energy announces ₹7,800 Cr expansion into ingot-wafer manufacturing

👉🏻 Agastya Energy will invest ₹7,800 Cr for backward integration into ingot and wafer manufacturing at its Kurnool, AP plant.

👉🏻 Adds to its existing 5 GW cell + 5 GW module capacity and aligns with MNRE’s ALMM push for domestic upstream solar.

👉🏻 Aims to cut import dependence on China and anchor demand with 2 GW/year of own solar projects. #Solar #MakeinIndia

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Govt Plans New PLI For Polysilicon To Cut China Dependence ☀️

🔹 Scheme to cover 10-30 GW capacity — needs ₹25,000 cr investment by 2030
🔹 India 100% dependent on China for polysilicon — key for solar PV
🔹 India has 200+ GW module, 32 GW cell capacity — 80 GW wafer/ingot target by 2028
🔹 Aims integrated chain: polysilicon → ingot → wafer → cell → module
#Policy #Solar

🔗 Mint

🛫🇮🇳  India's Cochin Airport expands green footprint with 50 MWp solar plant.

Key Highlights -

🔘 World’s first fully solar-powered airport

🔘 250M+ units green power generated

🔘 1.6M tonnes CO₂ avoided

🔘 Solar farms, rooftops, carports + floating solar

🔘 Adding hydropower, EVs & green-hydrogen


#energy #solar

Indosol Solar To Commission India's First Ingot-Wafer Plant In AP Next Month

🔹 ₹3,000 cr facility - country's only operational ingot plant; ingots sliced to wafers for cells & modules
🔹 Start with 1.2 GW integrated, roadmap to 10 GW then 20 GW
🔹 Eyes US export - US cell capacity to hit 25 GW by 2028 but ingot/wafer only 6 GW, gap for non-China wafers
🔹 High-purity mono wafers to support 25.5% cell efficiency, help US navigate China curbs & IRA benefits
#Solar #MakeinIndia

🔗 BusinessLine

Bihar unveiled a ₹1.38 lakh crore five-year energy plan for 24 GW renewables and 6 GWh storage by 2030. Peak demand is 9,500 MW versus 550 MW own generation; 2030 peak is projected at 11,747 MW. BSPHCL allocated ₹82,679 crore to generating assets and ₹24,683 crore to a 680-ckm Green Energy Corridor. #Power #Solar

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Premier Energies has commissioned its new 7 GW solar cell manufacturing facility, making it India's largest by capacity. This takes Premier Energies' total cell manufacturing capacity to 10.6 GW, and India's total capacity to 36-37 GW. On track to reach 42 GW by the end of this year. #Solar

🔗 Economic Times

Advait Battery Arm has signed a 1 GWh LFP cell supply deal with china's Hithium to secure a steady one-year component pipeline for its upcoming 2.5 GWh battery storage (BESS) assembly plant in Gangad, Gujarat. #Batteries #Solar

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Surat based Navitas Solar is launching a ₹10,000-crore expansion across Gujarat and Maharashtra to build an integrated solar ecosystem covering ingot, wafer, cell, and module manufacturing alongside energy storage and solar parks.

The company has already commissioned a 2.5-GW module facility in Surat, is investing in a 2.4-GW cell plant slated for July 2027, and targets over ₹2,000 crore in revenue this year. #Solar #MakeinIndia

Fujiyama Power Systems will set up a 1.2 GW TOPCon solar-cell plant in Ratlam, MP, at ₹350–400 crore. Production is slated by end-FY27, taking total cell capacity to 2.3 GW from 1.1 GW at Dadri. The firm already runs 3.6 GW of module capacity; FY26 revenue was ₹2,654 crore. #Solar

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Renaissance Solar proposes ₹5,000 crore 5 GW solar ingot and wafer plant in Karnataka. The 100-acre Tumakuru facility targets operations by mid-2028. The plant will manufacture ingots and wafers for solar cells and panels. #Solar

☀️ Tata Power has partnered with Norway's Ocean Sun to launch a 300 kWp floating solar pilot at the Mulshi reservoir in Maharashtra, replacing conventional heavy pontoons with an innovative hydro-elastic membrane that floats directly on water to simplify installation and boost energy efficiency through natural cooling. #Solar

Economic Times

🚀 🇮🇳 Kredence is investing ₹100 Crore to establish India’s largest 40,000 MTPA ultra-pure Hydrogen Peroxide facility in Vadodara, Gujarat.

🏭🔬 This specialized plant will purify wet chemicals down to a strict 0.1 ppb level, reducing import reliance for critical wafer cleaning in India's #semiconductor fabs and #solar cell manufacturing lines. 🧪☀️ #MakeinIndia

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🚀 Vikram Solar will roll out its first solar cells in December 2026 from a massive 9 GW N-type TOPCon plant in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu! 🇮🇳🔋

🏢 Developed by VSL Green Power at a 200-acre SIPCOT campus, the project is expandable to 12 GW and will create 2,000+ local #jobs. 💼✨

🌱 This phase follows their 6 GW module plant, with a final 9 GW ingot & wafer facility coming by FY29 to power fully "Made-in-India" #solar #energy. ☀️🛡️

🔗 Economic Times

Growel (India) and RENA Technologies (Germany) have signed a MoU to form a JV in India to manufacture wet chemical process equipment for the solar PV industry.

Wet chemical processing equipment is used to etch silicon wafers, a critical step for manufacturing high efficiency #solar cells. The same process also has applications in the #semiconductor industry. #MakeinIndia

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Jakson Group is investing ₹6,863 crore in an integrated #solar plant in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.

It will produce 10 GW of silicon ingots/wafers and 5 GW of cells across three phases, creating ~2,000 #jobs.

Phase 1 (3 GW ingots/wafers, 3 GW cells) targets commercial production in May 2028; remaining capacity by 2030.

☀️ Microtek invests Rs400 cr to accelerate solar growth

🏭 New solar panel plant in Jaipur, operational Nov 2026
🔋 Launching BESS and lithium storage
🔌 Portfolio: power generation, distribution, conditioning, storage (inverters, UPS, batteries, wires, solar panels) #Solar #Batteries

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