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Levi Strauss or Also Rans? Narasimhan Santhanam Energy Alternatives India – EAI www.eai.in Diverse Opportunities in Solar PV and CSP India Solar Energy Summit, New Delhi Feb 17, 2011
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Levi Strauss or Also Rans?
Narasimhan SanthanamEnergy Alternatives India – EAI
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Diverse Opportunities in Solar PV and CSP
India Solar Energy Summit, New DelhiFeb 17, 2011
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
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You Have the Opportunity to Become the Levi Strauss
Of the Indian Solar Opportunity Rush
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An Analysis of Solar Opportunities
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Obvious Opportunities
Not So Obvious Ones
Obvious Opportunities
A sample of obvious opportunities (for PV)
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Power ProductionModule Production
System Integration / EPC
Cell Manufacturing
• 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
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Breadth…
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Polysilicon
Ingots & wafers Cells Modules
GridPower plant
Solar products
Rooftop/ offgrid
Lanterns and
lights
Solar water pumps
Other solar
products
Micro
Mini
And Depth… Wafer inspection alone needs the following equipments
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Wafer Inspection
Life time Analyser
Material Property Analyser
Wafer vision inspector
Resistivity Inspector
Wafer Sorter
Wafer Counter
Wafer Tester
• 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
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• 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
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Wipro, HCL have developed monitoring software for solar PV power plants
• 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
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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
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Exploring the Not-So-Obvious
Understand the canvas of opportunities
Do a fit analysis with your core strengths & aspirations
Do an intensive feasibility study for the attractive ones
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In the Indian solar energy opportunity rush…
It’s left to you
To be an also-ran
or
Become a Levi Strauss
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May the sun shine on you!
Narasimhan SanthanamEnergy Alternatives India – EAI
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