News on India

News on suppliers, market trends and technology innovations in polysilicon and wafer production is selected, assessed and written for you by Bernreuter Research.

Monthly PV installations in China in 2024 versus 2023, cumulated from January through December. Unit: 10,000 kW

China drives up annual PV installations to over 340 GW in 2024

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The world’s largest solar market achieved a growth rate of 28% in2024. The usual year-end rally pushed new installations to 85 GW in December alone – as much as the USA and India installed together over the whole year.

Chairman Mukesh Ambani at the annual general meeting of Reliance Industries Limited on June 24, 2021

Will India’s plans for polysilicon production get real this time?

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Reliance, Adani and two other bidders are each proposing a 4 GW solar factory that is fully integrated from polysilicon production through wafer, solar cell and module manufacturing in India.

Port of Mundra, Gujarat state, India

Adani and China’s East Hope Group aiming for factory in India

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Indian logistics conglomerate Adani and Chinese industrial giant East Hope have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to invest $300 million in manufacturing units in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Adani’s solar factory in Mundra, Mundra Solar PV Limited (MSPVL)

Indian Adani Group puts polysilicon plans on the backburner

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Adani Green Energy, a subsidiary of the Indian logistics conglomerate Adani, has put its plan to manufacture polysilicon on hold, reports Indian newspaper Economic Times.