Rayzon Solar

Post REI Special

REI Special "Brief"

MR. ADITYA CHALASANI

SOUTH HEAD – MODULES SALES RAYZON SOLAR

An enriching conversation with Mr. Aditya Chalasani South Head – Modules Sales, Rayzon Solar in which he talks about his expectation from REI EXPO 2022, current challenges, key products of Rayzon Solar, highlights of the year and much more!

Expectations

We are trying to showcase our company in the best possible way and try to increase our footprint in the Indian market. We are currently at 1.5 Gigawatts line with installation capacity of 1.5 Gigawatts and out of the same 300 megawatts having of polycrystalline technology. Currently we are one the few manufacturers having world class setup of Solar Module MultiBusbar manufacturing line. We currently have an installation capacity of 1.5 Gigawatts, we are also coming up with 1 Gigawatt of Solar Cell Manufacturing Line and the announcement will be followed soon.

The current challenges of Renewable Energy sector

Duty structure and too much dependence on China for the raw material sourcing, these are the biggest challenges. I see other challenges like the prices of the modules are going up and the tariffs are coming low. The key Products offered by your company

in the same segment

We are offering 335Wp DCR modules which come with a 40 mm frame thickness and we are supplying 545Wp+ modules that also come with 40 mm frame thickness, these are the key products offered by us for our customers. We do offer not only in India we also export to USA and Europe under Made in India force.

The highlights of your company in 2022

If we consider DCR modules supply then RAYZON is on second rank in list of supplier of DCR modules in Gujarat. We have achieved considerable position in Indian market as far as Government, Rooftop and large scale projects are concerned. We have also commissioned our first Multibusbar Production line, we started installing our lines in January 2022. We started our production and we did about close to 120 to 230 megawatts in the first three to four months. These are the main highlights of Rayzon Solar so far in 2022 Hopes for 2023

Our target is to achieve 500 to 600 megawatts modules supply this year. And as far as our company vision is concerned; our management team looking forward to setup Solar Cell line with the latest technology by the year. RM

Post REI Special

INTERVIEW INTERVIEW

MR. NICK PATEL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AUSTRALIAN PREMIUM SOLAR (APS)

www.australianpremiumsolar.co.in

APS India has the only mission of making India a true solar leader through the development of indigenous solar products and solutions. Founded in 2013, APS India strives to become an independent manufacturer, seller, and innovator within the Indian solar sector. Our products are backed by our ongoing investments in R&D and are designed to offer world-class solutions across segments. Besides helping commercial and residential sectors shift to solar through our indigenous product range, we work to preserve the world that’s grappling with evident climate change and environmental concerns.

Q. What are your expectations from this event? To see people, to meet people, to greet people, and knowing more about industry and new comers especially young people who are joining the industry, meeting them also training them on what will be the future of India.

Q. What is the outlook of Renewable Energy Industry? There are three different markets in renewable energy industry – Residential Rooftop, Commercial Rooftop and Mega Watt Projects. In India we have done very good in megawatt projects in last five to six years, we have just started commercial but residential segment has a very good opportunity like we are working in Australia since last 13 years, currently Australia is almost 40 per cent residential in which we have covered 30 per cent residents so the penetration is very high compare to all over the world. If we see in India, Gujarat is the only state where the penetration is little bit high than other states, if we see overall Indian market just for the residential rooftop maybe we can pass 20 to 30 gigawatts every year in coming years. Whereas up to 50 gigawatts opportunity for commercial rooftop as well plus megawatt projects. One more segment is like pump segment for farmers and also solar programs for the farmers to add their income which is also a priority for Indian government, we believe within two to three years all these segments will grow ten times.

Q. What are the current challenges of Renewable Energy Sector? There are few challenges but we have passed so many challenges all over world in last two to three years. Renewable energy sector has also faced challenges like supply chain issue, GST and as an emerging country we require few things to change but the problem is that sometimes we act too fast to change the rules and regulations and sometimes it is delayed. For Example – For Residential Rooftop we need clear guidelines usually when tender comes it comes for a year and then six months will be ideal period and then for six months there would be new tender period. Some people are joining the industry they are doing very good for those 6 to 12 months but when there is no work for those 6 to 12 months then they have to do other things and for some companies like we are mainly focusing on rooftop and commercial & supply as well so this is how we can survive but the small retailers who are just dealing in retailing only for them we need long term strategy what we are going to do in 2030. There will be only one registration for them and there will be an overall target for a country which is happening via a national portal but still we have to work on it as the national portal started two months before which is very similar to what Gujarat has done in last two years and just to know that in Gujarat last year there was 700 to 800 megawatt solar system installed as an APS we have done highest number of solar system which is almost 20 megawatts which kept us on the number one position in Gujarat and Gujarat is the on the number one all over India. Until now only APS is the company who have done 20 megawatts in one year in residential rooftop which resulted in 5000 plus jobs within a year. We have our whole team because similar experience we have in Australia as Australia is two and half times bigger in geographical and we have experience of working all over Australia and we are roughly doing 200 and 250 megawatts in one year in Residential and Commercial Rooftop since last ten years. So we have expectations of achieving roughly 200 megawatts in one year from India within one to two years.

Q. What is the biggest highlight of your company in 2022? As I have mentioned earlier we are number one in Gujarat for Residential Rooftop the number one Gujarat is the on the number one all over India.

Q. What are the hopes for 2023? In 2023 we are expanding our capacity almost double and we are also bringing the mono solar line which is going to help us in the commercial segment also we are done some pump projects and we are going to expand that segment almost two times bigger and we have an opportunity to export our panels back to Australia where we are already using panels from overseas so yeah we believe next three to four years we have to do almost double by every year so that’s are hopes for coming years. RM

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