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75% of India's photovoltaic industry uses Chinese products 15% imported from the United States


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2023-09-26

At present, although India has replaced China as the fastest growing major economy in Asia and even the world, its power supply shortage is extremely serious. In order to solve this problem, India intends to vigorously develop the renewable energy industry, especially photovoltaic power generation, through industrial protection, trade protection and other policy means, but it is still difficult to get rid of its dependence on China. According to India's "Economic Times" news, India currently has about 0.3 billion people without electricity, mainly in rural areas, and its power shortage has caused economic losses of about 7% of its GDP. To this end, the Government of India has been committed to improving the supply of electricity.

At present, although India has replaced China as the fastest growing major economy in Asia and even the world, its power supply shortage is extremely serious. In order to solve this problem, India intends to vigorously develop the renewable energy industry, especially photovoltaic power generation, through industrial protection, trade protection and other policy means, but it is still difficult to get rid of its dependence on China.
 
According to India's "Economic Times" news, India currently has about 0.3 billion people without electricity, mainly in rural areas, and its power shortage has caused economic losses of about 7% of its GDP. To this end, the Indian government has been committed to improving the power supply problem, but due to coal shortages, transmission losses, electricity theft and other reasons have not been improved. Since the current President Modi achieved sufficient and stable power supply through solar power generation in Gujarat, India has urgently proposed to realize renewable energy transformation, such as the recent cancellation and closure of more than 14Gw large coal power generation projects and some mines, and these power supply gaps will be filled by solar photovoltaic power generation. In terms of planning vision, India plans to reach 0.1 billion kilowatts (100Gw) of photovoltaic installed capacity by 2022, which is five times the target proposed by the previous government. The renewable energy target will be raised from 6% to 15% by 2020. However, at present, India does not have a complete photovoltaic industry chain, and imported crystalline silicon cells basically come from China, and even the establishment of battery and module production lines also needs China's help.
 
According to the "India Solar Map (2016 Edition)" released by Indian analysis organization Brge To India, 8 of the top 10 suppliers of photovoltaic modules in India in 2016 are from China, of which about 75% of the installed photovoltaic capacity are made of Chinese products, 15% are imported from the United States, and the rest are provided by local manufacturers. Therefore, in order to promote the transformation of local photovoltaic companies that have long relied on imports, India has successively introduced some industrial protection policies. For example, at the end of July this year, India launched an anti-dumping investigation on photovoltaic cells and modules imported from mainland China, Taiwan and Malaysia. At present, China's photovoltaic industry occupies a leading position in the global industrial chain. In the case of a large basic power gap and a backward photovoltaic industry, it is difficult for India to rely solely on protective policies to get rid of China's dependence and achieve energy transformation.
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