ABB India inaugurates new state-of-the-art factory

MUMBAI:

ABB India

, the power and automation technology major, inaugurated a new solar

inverter

manufacturing facility. The facility is set to double the solar inverter manufacturing capacity of the company.

The factory was inaugurated by Sanjeev Sharma, CEO and Managing Director, ABB India and Robert Itschner, Global Managing Director for Power Conversion, ABB Group.

"ABB, a global leader in solar inverter technology, has also been powering solar projects across the country spanning the entire solar photovoltaic (PV) value chain, a key component of which has been our solar inverter technology, made in India," said Sanjeev Sharma.

In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the ambitious new target of 100 GW solar capacity by 2022 under the country's National Solar Mission - a five-fold increase over India's previous 20 GW target.

The targets will be supported by a mix of public and private initiatives, helping to raise India's energy security and meet annual demand increases of around 7 per cent.

India's current installed solar capacity is ~8GW out of which utility scale projects would comprise 6.5 GW to which ABB inverters are supplied.

Other ABB landmark solar inverter projects in India include the world's first fully solar powered airport, the world's largest single rooftop solar project, the world's longest canal top solar project, schools and solar installations at all of India's major airports.