- Wood Mackenzie has forecasted that India will overtake Southeast Asia as the second-largest module production region by 2025.
- Wood Mackenzie said this will be driven by India’s strong PLI incentives.
- It added India and the US have announced over 200 gigawatts (GW) of planned module capacity since 2022.
- Earlier, ICRA said India’s solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing capacity to increase to more than 60 GW by 2025 from the current level of around 37 GW.
- International Energy Agency (IEA) in a report last month said that India’s domestic production capacity can surpass 70 GW by 2027.
- According to the IEA, solar manufacturing currently is concentrated in five countries accounting for more than 90% of global capacity.
- These five countries are China (80% of the global market), Vietnam, (5%), India (3%), Malaysia (3%) and Thailand (2%).
- India accounts for 3% of the global solar manufacturing market.
- Wood Mackenzie is a global consultancy firm for renewables, energy and natural resources.
