PREMIER ENERGIES OPENS INDIA'S LARGEST SOLAR CELL FACILITY

has opened a 7 GW solar cell manufacturing facility in Naidupeta, Andhra Pradesh, taking it's total solar cell manufacturing capacity to 10.6 GW and making it India’s largest solar cell manufacturer by capacity. The new facility, which has begun trial production, will manufacture n-type TOPCon G12R solar cells. Spread across 101 acres, the facility is India’s largest solar cell manufacturing plant. It was developed at a capital expenditure of Rs 3,293 crore. The digitally enabled plant is designed to produce around 88,000 solar cells per hour. The company is now undertaking a Rs 12,500 crore capital expenditure programme over three years to more than double it's solar manufacturing capacity, expand backward integration into ingots and wafers, and diversify into inverters, transformers and battery energy storage systems.