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 Andhra Pradesh, close to Chennai).
The founder is a business acquaintance of mine. Those interested in further […]
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 keen to enter this sunrise sector. And most popular choice for them has been Solar EPC – […]
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 rare occasion that an existing Indian business is diversifying into the real sunrise industry – Solar. There […]
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 in 90% of their product portfolio. The group operates in over 50 countries and reports an annual […]
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 – WTF!
But I beg to differ from them. Let me explain this better.
To ADD or Not to […]
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 enough, it should feel good economically too. And it is indeed true that making everything at […]
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, I wonder: Has he ever heard of the term innovation?
It makes me ask as well – […]
