With JA Solar announcing yesterday that construction is soon to begin on a 500 MW solar cell facility in India's Andhra Pradesh state, the future for India's domestic solar market looks more robust than ever. GTM Research's senior solar analyst, Mohit Anand, believes that JA Solar's plans - which include a further 500 MW solar module facility by 2017 - allied to a recent 2 GW module production commitment from China's Trina Solar are a concrete symbol of the solar industry's belief that India is poised to enter the PV fast lane. "The JA Solar agreement highlights the seriousness with which international players now view Indian demand and their willingness to finally put money on the table to meet it," said Anand. Despite boasting a handful of local PV manufacturers for many years, India has always operated on a level below the leading solar producing nations, largely due to the highly competitive supply from neighboring China. Further, said Anand, international companies supplying the ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...