Featured in Testing the waters – 07-2011

Solar glass for solar industry

India: India is a huge and emerging market for the solar power production, thanks in part to the government’s ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) announced in 2009. The Solar Mission has set a goal of 20 gigawatts (GW) of on-grid installed solar capacity by 2022. How is the glass industry developing in the country and are foreign manufacturers needed to cater to the market?

Market analysts KPMG released a report last month into India’s solar future concluding that “the seeds have been sown for a rapidly scalable and a very large solar energy sector in the near future.” Though these are the projections, the solar and by extension the solar glass industries in India are in a nascent stage. …

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