Indian PV manufacturer and project developer, Moser Baer Solar said that a strategy announced back in January 2012 to vastly improve its competitive position in the industry has been completed.
Competition from China and industry overcapacity had originally forced Moser Baer Solar to curtail production and seek ways to upgrade its c-Si solar cell and a-Si thin-film technologies to offer higher performance products.
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Deploying thin-film deposition techniques garnered from the acquisition of a Royal Philips subsidiary, OM&T a specialist in blue-ray optical processes in 2007, Moser Baer Solar said in early 2012 that it would upgrade its solar cell processes using metal and intrinsic layer semiconductor technology (MIST) to achieve average cell conversion efficiencies of 21%. It would therefore join the few cell producers that were producing conversion efficiencies above 20%.
K.N.Subramaniam, CEO of Moser Baer Solar said: “For the country to achieve the highly ambitious target of 100,000MW of solar power capacity by 2022, we need to ensure strong and robust domestic manufacturing. We appreciate the Government’s consistent thrust on ‘Make in India' and focus on solar as a critical component in the country’s energy mix as borne out in various programs in support of domestic manufacturing in the country.”
According to the CEO, the upgraded solar cell lines would enable the company to better compete and supply PV modules to projects under the central government’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) conditions.
Moser Baer Solar’s c-Si capacity is estimated to be around 300MW.
