Premier Energies starts production at new plant

Hyderabad: PREMIER Energies, a solar PV cell manufacturing company, has commenced their trial production of 19.2 per cent efficiency 'Polycrystalline cells' in their new plant which is built with Rs 483 crore. These solar cells are produced from high quality silicon wafers.

The ISO certified manufacturing facility uses state-of-the-art production facility such as TQC (Total Quality Control) and SPC (Statistical Process Control).

The manufacturing unit is capable to produce black silicon MCCE textured multi-crystalline cells (which is first of its kind in India) as well as Mono PERC cells with efficiency in excess of 22.5 per cent.

"With the commencement of production, we have further strengthened our product portfolio, which caters to a wide range of customers. This marks a significant milestone in the evolution of solar technology and will keep us on the path of leading the change while aligning ourselves with Aatmanirbhar Bharat," said Chiranjeev Saluja, Founder and Managing Director, Premier Energies.

Premier Energies has a capacity of 1.25 GW module and 0.75GW cell. With this capacity increase the company becomes the second largest integrated manufacturer of solar cells and modules in India, Saluja added.

The new manufacturing facility has 100 percent EL and visual sorting; colour uniformity; minimum power loss; excellent solderability; best in class technology MCCE; Highly automated equipment.