India has traditionally depended on module imports to meet its solar modules’ needs. During the pandemic, global supply chain disruptions derailed the country’s capacity addition plans in a big way. Learning from the crisis and intending to secure India’s energy needs, the Government decided to encourage domestic manufacturing of solar modules and took a series of steps. Some major interventions included introducing the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for manufacturing solar panels, increasing the import duties, ALMM etc.
By following India’s mission of becoming Aatmanirbhar, Avaada is also moving forward in its journey to provide to manufacture its solar panels. Avaada is executing a 10 GW integrated polysilicon to a module manufacturing facility, which is planned to be commissioned in 3 phases by 2030. The project’s first phase will be operational next year, comprising 3 GW cells and modules.