With financial support from GIZ, the long-standing partner associations BSW (Germany) and NSEFI (India) are offering support for German companies and research institutions in initiating and concluding cooperation agreements with suitable Indian partners as part of a two-year project.
As part of the project, CEO roundtables are planned, among other things, which will offer you as a solar entrepreneur or representative of a research institute direct access to an exchange with a pre-selected and thematically suitable Indian partner.
In the run-up to Intersolar Europe (20 June 2024), a preparatory national CEO Roundtable will take place in Munich. We are currently planning the international CEO Roundtable with Indian participation around 30 September 2024 in Berlin. If you are interested in participating, please block the dates in your diary immediately and let us know your interest using the contact form below. If you have any questions, you can also contact our project contacts Luz Aguilar and Ronald Upmann directly (contacts opposite).
Background
India has consistently stepped up its renewable energy capacity targets to 500 GW by 2030, which includes the installation of 280 GW of solar power. With a comparable installed PV capacity, Germany with 82,2 GW and India with 73.5 GW, there is a similar discussion in India as in Europe about how to increase the domestic production capacity and the development of innovative areas of PV in order to achieve their expansion targets and make local industries more resilient. India has set an aggressive target for domestic production with the “Production Linked Incentives” that aim is to achieve a total production capacity of > 100 GW by 2026. The European Union aims to support domestic green industries under the umbrella of the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) and Germany’s government currently discusses several measures in order to support local manufacturers for Solar PV alongside the value chain. Apart from that, Germany has world-class solar research. Numerous efficiency records are held by German institutes such as Fraunhofer ISE. Many cell technologies currently used on an industrial scale also originate from top German laboratories. India also has a notable research landscape in the solar sector.
Experience has shown that success is primarily the result of co-operation – and this is no different in the solar sector. That is why we would like to actively support you as a German Solar company or research institute in establishing contacts with Indian partners for setting up a joint venture or a manufacturing or company partnership.
The interested member companies of our Indian partner association NSEFI prepared for the meeting with future German partners in a preparatory CEO Roundtable in New Delhi on 8 May 2024. The German preparatory CEO Roundtable Meeting will take place on 20 June 2024 at Intersolar Europe. The international CEO Roundtable of both countries will then take place on 30 September 2024 in Berlin.
