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‘India presents a big market opportunity for us’

Sujoy Ghosh, First Solar’s vice president for India and the Asia-Pacific region, speaks to pv magazine India’s Uma Gupta about the company’s plans to set up a 3.3 GW module fab in India to service the local market.

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Uma Gupta

05 Oct 2021

Image: First Solar

What are the drivers behind First Solar’s decision to invest in India? First of all, the Indian government is incentivizing backward integration. It’s trying to look at how you create more value in India, as opposed to just doing [module] assembly. Coupled with this is the fact that over the last two years, the …

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