Adani Solar Introduces India’s First Large-Sized Monocrystalline Silicon Ingot

Adani Group’s photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing and research arm Adani Solar has recently unveiled India’s first large-sized monocrystalline silicon ingot, inaugurated by Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group at its Mundra facility in Gujarat.
 
The new manufacturing line will produce silicon ingots exclusively for its solar wafers, cells and modules production.
 
With this, Adani Solar becomes the sole producer of large-sized monocrystalline silicon ingots in India.
 
Commenting on the development, Dr. Puneet Gupta, CTO of Adani Solar, said “we are delighted to become India's first manufacturer of large sized monocrystalline silicon ingots capable of producing M10 & G12 wafers. We have made remarkable technological progress in every aspect of solar manufacturing in the past, from cells to modules, and we intend to replicate our past successes in our future endeavors as we backward integrate all the way to producing metallurgical grade silicon from quartz.”
 
“Our Chairman’s vision is ambitious, and we are fully committed to achieving accelerated growth in this business by establishing a fully integrated and comprehensive ecosystem of 10 GW Solar PV manufacturing - an ecosystem that not only is vertically integrated but also hosts all ancillary units in the same geography,” Dr. Gupta added.
 
Adani Solar, an arm of Adani New Industries Ltd (ANIL), is the first company in India to complete the backward integration of ingot line infrastructure in a record time of about 7 months.
 
While the company’s initial production has already begun, it intends to add 2 GW of ingot and wafer capacity by the end of 2023, and by 2025, it will scale up to 10 GW.
 
Meanwhile, the company has been a pioneer in silicon-based cell and module production with the establishment of the first GW scale factory in India started in 2016. It has ramped-up its annual production capacity of solar PV cells and modules from 1.2 GW in 2017 to 4 GW in 2022.