1. Levi Strauss or Also Rans? Diverse Opportunities in Solar PV and CSP India Solar Energy Summit, New Delhi Feb 17, 2011 NarasimhanSanthanam Energy Alternatives India – EAI www.eai.in
2. The California Gold Rush 300,000 gold diggers Relatively few supporting businesses Merchandise, logistics, food & lodging… Gold diggers made modest profits Support biz on average made higher profits Levi Strauss ran one of the support businesses Levi Strauss is today a multi-billion $ company www.eai.in
3. You Have the Opportunity to Become the Levi Strauss Of the Indian Solar Opportunity Rush www.eai.in
4. An Analysis of Solar Opportunities Obvious Opportunities Not So Obvious Ones www.eai.in
5. Obvious Opportunities A sample of obvious opportunities (for PV) Power Production Module Production Cell Manufacturing System Integration / EPC www.eai.in
6. And the Not So Obvious… 2 Technology 1 Diversity 4 Size 3 Sectors www.eai.in
8. All along the value chain From ingots to solar farms (breadth) Multiple opportunities at every point in value chain (depth) Across many industries Electrical Construction Chemical Instrumentation Materials - glass and steel… Finance Engineering design and services… Software www.eai.in
9. Breadth… Micro Rooftop/ offgrid Mini Polysilicon Ingots & wafers Cells Modules Grid Power plant Lanterns and lights Solar products Solar water pumps Other solar products www.eai.in
10. And Depth… Wafer inspection alone needs the following equipments Wafer Inspection Material Property Analyser Life time Analyser Wafer Tester Wafer vision inspector Resistivity Inspector Wafer Counter Wafer Sorter www.eai.in
13. PV Chemicals for PV wafer and cell manufacturing Coatings, laminates BIPV CSP Turbines Cooling systems Heat exchangers and storage tanks Collector frames Tracking system Thermal Solar water heating and process drying for industries Solar air conditioners and other cooling systems www.eai.in
16. Manufacturing Silicon carbide & crucibles for wafer manufacturing Inverters, wires and transformers for power plants Chemicals for solar PV ingot and cell production Trading Wires and cables for solar farms Marketing solar products - lamps and lanterns, solar water heaters… Services Software such as forecasting and system monitoring tools for solar farms www.eai.in
19. Small Engineering design for solar power plants Recruitment and training services Mobile solar kits for the army/defense Medium Production of BoS such as inverters currently imported Manufacture of metallization pastes and chemicals for PV cell manufacturing Junction box, connector, frame, sealant and tapes Large Ingot and wafer manufacturing Innovating in the BIPV market R&D for indigenization of critical components www.eai.in
21. There are opportunities…. Whatever type of business you are in Small, medium or large business In manufacturing, trading or services Interested in PV, thermal or CSP In any of a dozen industries Takes only tweaks for you to join the solar energy industry www.eai.in
23. In the Indian solar energy opportunity rush…It’s left to youTo be an also-ranor Become a Levi Strauss www.eai.in
24. May the sun shine on you! NarasimhanSanthanamEnergy Alternatives India – EAI narsi@eai.in, www.eai.in www.eai.in
Notas do Editor
Life time AnalyserWafer vision inspectorResistivity InspectorMaterial Property AnalyserWafer SorterWafer CounterWafer Tester
Life time AnalyserWafer vision inspectorResistivity InspectorMaterial Property AnalyserWafer SorterWafer CounterWafer Tester
Life time AnalyserWafer vision inspectorResistivity InspectorMaterial Property AnalyserWafer SorterWafer CounterWafer Tester
Cell manufacturing requires the following: Metallization paste = silver paste, aluminium paste, and the following chemicals: Isopropyl Alcohol, Ammonia, Phosphorus oxychloride, Sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, Potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxideModule production requires the following: Junction Box, Connector, Frame, Sealant and tapesThin film modules - Boron, Cadmium Sulfide, Copper, Alumina, Gallium, Germanium, Indium, Molybdenum, Phosphorus oxychloride, Tellurium, Tin Ingot testing equipment - Life time Analyser, Ingot vision inspector, Resistivity Inspector, Material Property Analyser, Polysilicon Tester
Cell manufacturing requires the following: Metallization paste = silver paste, aluminium paste, and the following chemicals: Isopropyl Alcohol, Ammonia, Phosphorus oxychloride, Sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, Potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxideModule production requires the following: Junction Box, Connector, Frame, Sealant and tapesThin film modules - Boron, Cadmium Sulfide, Copper, Alumina, Gallium, Germanium, Indium, Molybdenum, Phosphorus oxychloride, Tellurium, Tin Ingot testing equipment - Life time Analyser, Ingot vision inspector, Resistivity Inspector, Material Property Analyser, Polysilicon Tester
In India, HHV Solar Technologies Pvt. Ltd recently (March 2010) broke into the international league where a handful of companies sell turnkey production lines for thin film solar cells.