Interview – Deepak Chauhan Marketing Specialist – India – TBEA Xi’an Electric Tech. Co. Ltd.
Power Insight : What is your outlook for the Indian solar market? What is your take on India achieving its 100 GW by 2022 solar target?
Deepak Chauhan : India has become the world’s largest market for new renewable energy auctions and the second-largest destination for attracting clean energy investments, according to the latest Climatescope 2018 report by BloombergNEF.
India being one of the biggest solar market globally provide an open sky of opportunities to Solar developers investing their money. . TBEA has always focused on product quality and customer services being fruitfully awarded and have more than 2GW Inverters Supplied in India.
Focusing on Indian Solar market requirements, TBEA has launched 1500V 3.75MW & 5MW inverters into its product basket having product range 1000V & 1500V inverters with capacity 500kW to 5MW (Central Inverter).
As of July 2018, India has an installed solar capacity of 23.12 GW, according to MNRE. They also claim to have planned a detailed trajectory so as to meet the target of 100 GW by 2022. Projects of around 10 GW are under implementation and tenders for an additional 24.4 GW have been issued.
The country is on track to comfortably achieve the target of 100 GW of solar capacity by 2022, as claimed by MNRE. Also, there is a drag of technology from 1000V to 1500V solutions and TBEA is well prepared with solutions, along with its R&D team dedicatedly working for Indian Solar Market requirements.
Power Insight : Please tell our readers about TBEA Xián Electric Technology Co. Ltd. and its product offerings?
Deepak Chauhan : TBEA Xián Electric Technology Co. Ltd., is one of the global leaders in Solar Inverter manufacturing having its Global Headquarters in Xián, China. Company is a part of TBEA group, and inherits the engineering & manufacturing excellence of 70 years’ experience having a professional R&D team.
India being second largest solar market globally after China. TBEA have always focused on product quality and customer services being fruitfully awarded and have more than 2GW Inverters Supplied in India.
TBEA Xián Electric Technology Co. Ltd. have a wide range of Solar Inverter Solutions of Central Inverters comprising with 1000V & 1500V solutions. TBEA Product basket have below mentioned solutions:
- 1000V 500kW Central Inverter
- 1000V 630kW Central Inverter
- 1000V 1000kW Central Inverter
- 1000V/1500V 1250kW Central Inverter
- 1000V/1500V 2500kW Central Inverter
- 1000V/1500V 3750kW Central Inverter
- 1000V/1500V 5000kW Central Inverter
Power Insight : What is your reach in Indian market? How much TBEA Xián Electric Technology Co. Ltd. successful in India?
Deepak Chauhan : TBEA Xián Electric Technology Co. Ltd. have served all-round the solar industry by associating with almost all major key players Big & Small in the market namely ACME, RENEW, AZURE, AVAADA, ADANI, OPG, BHEL, Rays Power Infra, Rays Power Expert, KEC, L&T, ENRICH, KC Solar etc contributing to a total of 2GW+ supply record in India.
ACME alone counts approx. 900MW of supply for their several projects in Andhra Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Punjab, etc. Azure have been served with 1500V Outdoor solutions which successfully commissioned & running at their 10MW site in Kadapa (Andhra Pradesh), OPG 62MW in Karnataka, L&T 150MW in Karnataka, BHEL 20MW in West Bengal, Rays Power Infra 100MW in Karnataka, KEC 5MW in Himachal Pradesh, Rays Power Expert 50MW in Rajasthan, and still counting.
Overall cost & technology trends in solar inverters is a drag in market from 1000V solutions to 1500V solutions and due to this technology drag the cost lowers down by almost 10-12% in inverters & 0.5-2% in overall project cost. And Indian Solar Industry have witnessed some really aggressive biddings in recent past, so the biggest challenge is to meet the decreasing Bids going as low as Rs 2.44 per kWh.
Power Insight : What are some of the biggest challenges faced by the solar power segment in India?
Deepak Chauhan : Overall cost & technology trends in solar inverters is a drag in market from 1000V solutions to 1500V solutions and due to this technology drag the cost lowers down by almost 10-12% in inverters & 0.5-2% in overall project cost. And Indian Solar Industry have witnessed some really aggressive biddings in recent past, so the biggest challenge is to meet the decreasing Bids going as low as Rs 2.44 per kWh.
Power Insight : What kind of growth and capacity additions do you see for TBEA Xián Electric Technology Co. Ltd. in solar power sector in India?
Deepak Chauhan : TBEA Xián Electric Technology Co. Ltd., is a part of TBEA group, and inherits the engineering & manufacturing excellence of 70 years’ experience having a professional R&D team which mainly formed by Doctors & Masters. Firmly focusing on the development of photovoltaic grid connected control equipment, the company works under a concept of environment-friendly, reliability and efficiency. And now, the company has established R&D Centers and GW production bases in Xi’an and Hami, whose annual capacity is able to be beyond 10GW.
As a result, TBEA Xián Electric Technology Co. Ltd. has served almost all major clients namely ACME, Renew Power, KEC International, OPG Energy, KC Solar, Adani, BHEL, L&T, Enrich Energy, Maheshwari Mines, Rays power expert, Rays Power Infra, Avaada, Azure Power, etc. The big customers base have fruitfully awarded TBEA Xián Electric technology Co. Ltd. to gain more than 2GW Inverter Supply in India and further counting.
