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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

And the Not So Obvious…

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2Technology

1Diversity

3Sectors

4Size

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Diversity of Opportunities

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• 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

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An inverter alone requires hundreds of different components

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Opportunities across

Technologies

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• 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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China has 25 million solar water heaters; India has just 0.5 million

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Across Sectors

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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

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Across Sizes

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• 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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India will require 100,000 skilled personnel for solar by 2022 – MNRE

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

narsi@eai.in, www.eai.in

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