GREW Solar Plans 8 GW Wafer Plant In Madhya Pradesh

Ahead of India’s upcoming Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) List-III for solar wafers, GREW Solar is accelerating plans to establish an 8 GW solar ingot and wafer manufacturing factory in Madhya Pradesh. 

GREW is setting up this capacity in Narmadapuram, where it is already working on a 3 GW cell manufacturing unit, according to The Hindu Business Line. Backed by Bay Capital Investment, the cell fab is planned to be scaled to 8 GW by the end of 2026 (see India Solar PV News Snippets). 

The 8 GW ingot and wafer factory is targeted to be commissioned by March 2028, before the government’s ALMM List-III comes into force in June 2028 (see India To Enforce ALMM List-III For Ingots, Wafers On June 1, 2028). 

Backed by denim manufacturer Chiripal Group, GREW Energy is one of the winners of tranche II of India’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for 2 GW wafer+cell+module manufacturing capacity through GREW Solar.  

Currently, it has a 6.5 GW PV module manufacturing plant in Dudu, Rajasthan, which it targets to expand to 11 GW. 

ALMM is the Indian government’s flagship scheme, which promotes the use of domestically manufactured solar PV products. Enlisted solar module and cell capacity under ALMM List-I and ALMM List-II, respectively, include manufacturers with local production capacity and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)-certified specific models to be deployed for any government or government-aided project. 

Enlisted module manufacturers are required to locally source cells and wafers from companies and models listed in List-II and List-III.  

GREW follows several solar PV manufacturers announcing multi-GW-scale ingot and wafer manufacturing projects, including Tata Power’s 10 GW, ReNew’s 6 GW, and Waaree Energy’s 10 GW plans (see Tata Power Announces 10 GW Ingot-Wafer Manufacturing).