- Adani Solar has started production of India’s 1st large sized monocrystalline silicon ingot at its Mundra facility
- It has the capability now to manufacture M10 and G12 wafers that can enable solar modules with efficiencies ranging between 21% to 24%
- These silicon ingots will be produced exclusively for the company’s own wafer, cell and module production
Finally, India’s dream of having a its own vertically integrated solar PV manufacturing capacity is coming to reality as Adani Solar unveiled the nation’s 1st large sized monocrystalline silicon ingot, becoming its sole producer in the country aiming to produce 2 GW ingot and wafer capacity by 2023-end.
From thereon, it will scale up to 10 GW by 2025 through the group’s Adani Solar which is a part of Adani New Industries Ltd (ANIL).
The new manufacturing line at its Mundra facility has capability to produce M10 and G12 sized silicon ingots exclusively for the company’s own solar wafers, cells and modules as it ramps up its solar cells and modules capacity from 1.2 GW in 2017 to 4 GW in 2022.
It expects these ingots to help produce silicon-based PV modules with efficiencies ranging between 21% and 24%. The company says it achieved backward integration of ingot line infrastructure within 7 months.
“We have made remarkable technological progress in every aspect of solar manufacturing in the past, from cells to modules, and we intend to replicate our past successes in our future endeavors as we backward integrate all the way to producing metallurgical grade silicon from quartz,” said Adani Solar CTO, Dr. Puneet Gupta.
Recently, the group hired Engineers India Limited to build 30,000 MTPA polysilicon and 500 MTPA monosilane project for Mundra Solar Technology (see Adani Finds EPC Contractor For India Polysilicon Project).
