Niti Aayog to organise global virtual symposium on solar sector

New Delhi, Oct 5 (KNN) Aiming to unveiling and promoting cutting-edge technologies in solar manufacturing in India, NITI Aayog, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, and Invest India are jointly organizing a global symposium virtually, ‘India PV EDGE 2020’, on October 6, 2020, from 5–8.40 pm.

Union Minister for Power, and New and Renewable Energy, R.K. Singh, VC-NITI Aayog, Rajiv Kumar, CEO-NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, Joint Secretary Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Amitesh Kumar, MD &CEO Invest India, Deepak Bagla and Additional Secretary NITI Aayog, Rakesh Sarwal will attend the Plenary session. Around 60 prominent Indian and global CEOs are slated to attend the event virtually.

In the symposium, there will be a plenary session and subsequent sessions on ‘Wafers and Cells’, ‘Modules and Production Equipment’ and ‘Supply Chain’. It will also include an ‘Investors Conclave’ on PV Manufacturing. Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh states will participate in the conclave.

This will be followed by an ‘Investors Roundtable’, which will discuss and deliberate upon issues related to India’s solar manufacturing sector viz. affordable financing, role of developers in building the ecosystem of cutting edge solar manufacturing etc.

To recover from the covid-inflicted impact and to battle the impending threat of global warming, governments must be even more ambitious and decisive towards clean investments. International cooperation and leveraging strengths are crucial in these times.

Solar deployment has been the flagship green growth story of the last decade and this would be instrumental to stimulate growth and build a climate-resilient world. India has become the third-largest solar capacity country in the world and set an ambitious target of 450 GW of renewable capacity by 2030, comprising 300 GW of solar capacity.

The major factor behind the rise of solar deployment is giga-scale solar manufacturing and the continuous adoption of innovations to reduce prices. Hence, solar PV manufacturing is one of the strategic sectors announced by the Indian government as part of the post-Covid Aatmanirbhar Bharat recovery initiative.

Efforts are underway to make India a global hub for solar PV manufacturing, and significant giga-factory announcements are being made by local and global firms.

Cutting-edge giga-scale solar manufacturing stands on three pillars namely disruptive PV chemistries, manufacturing by custom-engineered advanced production equipment and utilisation of innovative BOM components like special glasses and coatings.

If interested in presenting in the symposium, please write to pvedge2020@gmail.com

If interested in attending the symposium, please register at: https://www.investindia.gov.in/pv-edge-2020-registration