Bengaluru: India’s aspiration to become a “solar superpower” hinges on production of a key raw material, polysilicon. This is a semiconductor that helps convert photons to electricity and is used in the production of solar cells and modules.
However, India is currently dependent on polysilicon (and solar cells/panels) imports, mainly from China. But the country’s willingness to enhance its solar capacity increasingly depends on making the domestic manufacturing ecosystem robust, according to a new report by the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), a think tank.
