Adani Solar

Post REI Special

REI Special "Brief"

MR. RAHUL BHUTIANI

HEAD SALES & MARKETING ADANI SOLAR

In a remarkable and short conversation with Mr. Rahul Bhutiani, Head Sales & Marketing, Adani Solar, and knowing more about the insights of REI-2022 experience, footfall, product launch, adapting to new technology, plans, and conveying a message to their customers...

Product launch and expectations...

Our expectation from this event is to clearly get to meet or interact with all our potential existing customers and channel partners, and it’s definitely a platform where we can all get together and understand each other the nuances of this industry, how things will progress, and how it will look for us. With respect to what we are showcasing here, we have expanded our capacity. We are now moving from 2 GW to 4 GW. We are setting up the facility with the Top-con technology, which is a high-efficiency module. That’s what we are showcasing at this event.

Adani Solar’s industrial outlook

We believe that it’s a very positive outlook for the industry and we've got it both domestically and internationally. There's a lot of demand and this is only going to grow further. So, for the players who are serious about the industry and who are drawing up plans to create a very integrated eco-system, I think the sky is the limit in terms of the potential.

Current challenges...

In the last few years, we’ve faced challenges in the supply chain disruption, whether it was related to COVID, shipping lines, when containers were not available, and that was like a wake-up call for everyone, and we are responding in our own way, where we are creating this entire value eco system for solar manufacturing that kind of gives us independence from the imports from the entire supply chain, so that’s what we are focusing on. This is the real challenge the industry faces.

New opportunities that you see for the solar industry...

A very clear opportunity on the immediate horizon is the huge requirement that will come up as the country and internationally most towards green hydrogen in a big way. So, green energy is primarily solar energy. There will be a huge demand because of the green hydrogen plans by various players in the country

and internationally. Adani Solar's current use of new technology allows

Three things that are really important currently are: • How do we make our supply chain independent of all the uncertainties that are in exports? • We are setting up our tracker facilities, which will enable us to offer our clients higher efficiencies through the tracker, which will be able to better capture the sun's rays as it moves across the horizon. • We are doing our little bit within the manufacturing ecosystem. We are trying to bring digitalization in a big way by focusing on ESG, sustainability, and governance to ensure that we are able to create a manufacturing setup that is efficient and effective. Other technologies (AI and ML)

AI (Artificial intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) is our sister concern which is into generations, Adani Green Energy is definitely using that in a big way. We are looking at mining data in a better way so that we can be more efficient in our manufacturing operations. Our machines are already equipped to learn, and the ML, in that way, is already integrated within the system that we are creating, but data analytics is a very important area that we are focusing on at Adani Solar to ensure that we learn from our experiences and create a manufacturing setup that is very efficient and effective.

A Message for Customers

We believe that the opportunity is huge in front of us and this is the right time for us to focus on creating an eco system to be able to make India energy secure. All of us, whether it is manufacturers, EVC players, or developers, come together to ensure that India becomes energy secure in the coming times and meets the vision. RM