The Proposed manufacturing facility will be producing photovoltaic cells and modules for solar power generating units of 4GW annual capacity. Tata Power Solar is India's premier ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified integrated cell and module manufacturing facility.
The Proposed manufacturing facility will be producing photovoltaic cells and modules for solar power generating units of 4GW annual capacity. The manufacturing facility will also produce some of the raw materials (EVA and POV) required for module manufacturing.
In the first half of the year 2024, India added a record 11.3 GW of solar modules and 2 GW of solar cell capacity. With that, the country's cumulative manufacturing capacity reached 77.2 GW in modules and 7.6 GW of cell capacity. Gujarat alone accounts for 45% of module manufacturing and 52% of cell manufacturing.
Tata Power Solar reached 1.1GW of cell and module capacity in 2021. Image: Tata Power The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has announced plans to invest US$425 million into Tata Power subsidiary TP Solar, which it plans to use to build a 4.3GW solar cell and module manufacturing plant in India.
Many of these states are in the south of India, and TP Solar plans to build its new manufacturing facility in one of these states, Tamil Nadu. “We appreciate DFC’s assistance for our solar cell and module production facility in Tamil Nadu,” said Praveer Sinha, Tata Power CEO and managing director.
Having a total cell & module manufacturing capacity of 4.3 GW, the module production line at the Tirunelveli plant was commissioned in October 2023 and has produced 1250 MW of solar modules till date.