Struggling Indian Solar Cell and Module manufacturers have finally spoken with hard words against the Indian Government for not supporting and growing local Solar Manufacturing.
It's a real sad story in simple words. The depth of which local manufacturer are struggling can be seen by just looking into their operational capacity. According to Economic Times, Indian Manufacturing plants are running on 10% operational capacity. You heard it right. mere 10%. Also of a total capacity of 268 MWp of Grid- connected Solar PV power plants have been set up under JNNSM so far (as on 31.10.2012), of which only plants with 120MWp aggregate capacity are using domestically produced module, which corresponds to about 40% of the domestic production.
Indian Solar Manufacturer's Association (ISMA) today said it
has asked the government for a clear policy for the domestic solar
industry. For the second phase of the national solar mission, there are still no clear instructions for the project developers on the domestic equipment sourcing.
S Venkataramani, Indian Solar Manufacturer's Association (ISMA) said "Investment worth Rs 10,000 crore has jeopardised because there is no
headspace for the indigenous industry among the foreign players who are
dominating the Indian solar market,".
The current capacity of
Indian solar manufacturing is roughly 1,000 MW of cells and 2,000 MW of
modules. Most of the units, including Moser Baer, Lanco, Tata Solar have shut down their manufacturing capacity. Others like Indosolar have scaled down to 5-10%.
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