A medium sized Indian solar module maker is exploring partnerships – investments, marketing partnerships, acquisition… The company was founded in 2010 and has a capacity of 45 MW of solar module production. It has its manufacturing facility at Tada (in…
Finding a niche as Solar EPC – Premier Solar
Finding a niche as Solar EPC – Premier Solar An Interview @REI 2016 With Solar power growing at a fast pace in India and the Government at the centre providing good impetus for the growth, many entrepreneurs and businesses are…
Riding the Solar Wave – Diversifying into Solar Panel manufacturing by HarSolar
Riding the Solar Wave – Diversifying into Solar Panel manufacturing by HarSolar An Interview @REI 2016 Solar is hot. And many medium and large Indian businesses are looking to strike the iron when it is hot. It is not a…
Think Global Act Local – Arkema Chemical
Think Global, Act Local – Arkema Chemical An Interview @REI 2016 Arkema is a specialty chemicals global major, headquartered at France. They have three business segments – High performance materials, Industry specialties and coating solutions and they are world no.1…
Should India Say WTF to WTO on Solar?
Recently, a WTO ruling on solar went against India, in the context of “discriminatory trade practices”. The case was filed by the US against India. I am sure there are lots of Indians having a knee-jerk reaction to this adverse ruling –…
Why Make in India Makes Enormous Sense for Solar
The Make in India campaign by the Modi government is in full flow. There is a visceral “feel-good” factor about making something in our country, isn’t there? The economists among you will point out that feeling good viscerally is not…
US Has SunShot for Solar. India Has Gunshot.
Every time I see our Power Minister Piyush Goyal sport a big smile while boasting that his government had brought down solar power tariffs even further, and in the same breath say that his government will ensure Make in India for solar,…