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

Adani Solar, the Solar PV manufacturing arm of Adani Group, has introduced India’s first large sized monocrystalline silicon ingot. The company has said in its official statement that the new product has been inaugurated by Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group at its Mundra facility, where it is setting up a  10 GW manufacturing facility.

Adani Solar said that the monocrystalline ingots will drive indigenization to produce renewable electricity from Silicon based PV modules with efficiencies ranging from 21% to 24%.

Adani Solar, a part of Adani New Industries Ltd (ANIL), which claims to be leading India’s energy transition through the development of world’s largest green hydrogen ecosystem, has said that it is the first entity in India to complete the backward integration of ingot line infrastructure in a record-time of about 7 months, making significant progress towards the goal of ‘energy swaraj.’ The new manufacturing line will produce silicon ingots exclusively for its solar wafers, cells and modules production.

Incidentally, we covered how parent firm Adani Enterprises has given EIL a mandate for a 30,000 TPA polysilicon plant last week, which will complete the full backward integration from polysilicon to ingots to wafers and cells and modules for the group.

With this, Adani Solar said that it becomes the sole producer of large sized monocrystalline silicon ingots in India which shall be a critical link in the photovoltaic crystalline silicon industry value-chain and drive towards a self-reliant India in the near future.

Dr. Puneet Gupta, CTO, 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.” He added that the firm is committed to achieve accelerated growth in the 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.

While the initial production of Adani Solar has already begun, it intends to add 2 GW of ingot and wafer capacity by the end of 2023. By 2025, it will scale up to 10 GW.

The company claims to be a pioneer in silicon-based cell and module production with the establishment of first GW scale factory of India that 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.

Currently, China-based Jinglong is the largest manufacturer of monocrystalline ingot.