India's Waaree eyes United States push following 300MW California order

• Indian PV producer Waaree Energies is eyeing a significant push in the US market after receiving an order for greater than 300MW of mono PERC modules in the country.

In an offer worth US$ 105 million, the modules will be supplied for a concealed project in California that already has a power purchase contract in place as well as is expected to be commissioned in the second or 3rd quarter of 2021.

Sunil Rathi, Waaree sales and also advertising and marketing supervisor, said the deal shows the capacities of Indian solar suppliers to compete internationally.

"We have actually lately completed the supply of 50MW modules for a Fortune 500 business in USA, as well as are expecting a lot more such advancements in USA," he stated, adding that the company is intending to open up a new workplace in California.

Waaree has now provided greater than 3GW of solar modules worldwide as well as appointed more than 600MW of solar EPC projects in India and also Southeast Asia.

Waaree's proposal to boost its visibility internationally comes in the middle of ongoing uncertainty over the potential for brand-new import tariffs in India to improve residential solar production. The business's chairman lately called on the Indian government to bring in a fundamental customs obligation of a minimum of 50% to protect domestic solar tools suppliers from imports, a far better toll than the ones currently in place.

Talking in his ability as chairman of profession body All India Solar Industries Association, Hitesh Doshi informed PV Tech that manufacturers in India need further production as there exists as a "considerable" manufacturing cost difference between India as well as China.

That proposed 50% rate would be presented on top of India's 14.9% secure obligation that has actually been expanded for an additional year and also is imposed on all solar cells and also modules imported from China, Thailand and also Vietnam.