Interviews

Product Company Chakan is a state-of-the-art factory inaugurated in 2013, designing and manufacturing compressors for the Indian market. The successful implementation of a world-class Lean Manufacturing 4.0 has now allowed its expansion towards export.

We have formed a special purpose vehicle-JSW Solar-for pursuing our interest in renewable energy opportunities. We have approved the capital expenditure (capex) budget for setting up additional 10-MW solar power projects implying total solar power projects of 17 MW under implementation.

We have already liberalised the Electricity Act and it provides for franchisees. However, the charging station is not selling electricity, but giving you a service. It is actually buying the electricity from a discom.

Trackers play a major role in solar photovolatic (PV) globally, with more than 50 per cent of installations using single axis tracking technology. Good quality trackers reduce project costs as well as maintenance needs while enhancing generation by 20 per cent or more depending on the location of the installation.

Players like Sterling Generators are taking the lead and have gained foothold in the market. POWER TODAY caught up with CEO of Powergen Business, Sterling and Wilson, Sanjay Jadhav, at the company's facility in Silvassa where he talks about genset market and its importance for data centres.

From the projects handled, we have developed a core team of project managers and sub-contractors who understand every facet of the activity from design, construction to commissioning and have established a methodology for speedy construction from which we are progressing in transmission work along with established distribution work.

Globally, we have seen the solar energy sector becoming more competitive, with ó2.34 tariff discovered in Saudi Arabia and similar tariff being seen in Mexico, Chile and other parts of the world.

In an exclusive interview to POWER TODAY, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Managing Director & CEO, Amplus Energy Solutions emphasises that generation-based incentive needs to be institutionalised to boost the solar rooftop segment. Amplus is also proposing a model to discover the value of rooftop solar power.

Our transmission and distribution (T&D) equipment industry, in 2017, covering towers, lines and devices, is around Rs 180 billion, including exports. At an aggregate level, the industry has grown nominally at ~ 3 per cent over 2016. However, towers, conductors, insulators, in particular showed negative growth.