MNRE’s Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) comes into effect after being held up for a year | Current Affairs | Vision IAS
News Today Logo

    MNRE’s Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) comes into effect after being held up for a year

    Posted 09 Apr 2024

    2 min read

    • Approved Models and Manufacturers of Solar Photovoltaic Modules Order, 2019 by Ministry of New and Renewable (MNRE) requires makers of solar modules (SM) to voluntarily submit to an inspection.
      • Inspection is done by National Institute of Solar Energy, MNRE affiliated body.
    • Being on list as an ‘approved’ manufacturing facility, certifies a company as legitimate manufacturer of solar panels and not a mere importer or assembler. 

     

    • Benefits:
      • Only models and manufacturers included in list are eligible for use in Government Projects and Government Schemes etc.
      • Reduce dependency on imports from China (which controls 80% of global supply).
      • Ensure livelihood generation and manufacturing at local level.

     

    • India’s solar modules manufacturing capacity is around 50 GW and installed capacity of solar cell manufacturing is around 6 GW. 
      • Around 11.17 billion USD of solar cells and modules have been imported into the country in last five years.
      • China produced 57% to 100% of Indian imports of products including modules, cells, wafers and solar glass (since 2021).

     

    • Reasons for import dependence: Insufficient domestic manufacturing capacity; high costs of domestic solar PV panels, India has limited production of wafers or polysilicon etc.

     

    Initiatives facilitating domestic solar module manufacturing

     
    • Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for High Efficiency Solar PV Modules.
    • Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) under some of the current schemes of the MNRE.
    • Customs duty of 40% on solar modules and 25% on solar cells from 2022.
    • Tags :
    • Solar Energy
    • Photovoltaic Modules
    • ALMM
    Watch News Today
    Subscribe for Premium Features