India Issues New Tender for 2GW Solar Power Equipment Factories
- Seeking manufacturing of modules, cells, ingots and wafers
- India scrapped last two such tenders on low investor interest
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India issued a new tender for solar power equipment manufacturing capacity totaling 2 gigawatts, the latest attempt to spur its domestic industry after two earlier efforts failed to rouse investor interest.
The new tender, issued by the state-owned Solar Energy Corp. of India, seeks four projects for module, cell, ingot and wafer manufacturing with annual capacity of 500 megawatts each, with each plant accompanied by up to 1.5 gigawatts of generating solar capacity.