Borosil Renewables Limited has bagged an award from the Indian government for the successful development and commercialization of indigenous solar glass technologies.
The National Award 2021 award was conferred by the Department of Science and Technology’s Technology Development Board.
Borosil Renewables Limited has developed a state-of-the-art manufacturing technology to produce a variety of solar glasses including the 2mm thick fully-tempered solar glass (which is being used in high-powered glass-glass bifacial modules), Selene anti-glare solar glass for solar installations near airports, and Shakti solar glass in matt-matt finish.
Borosil Renewables
The company has a manufacturing facility in Bharuch of Gujarat and supplies its 2.0 mm and 2.5 mm fully tempered solar glass to the European markets.
With rising sales, the company is expanding its capacity from 450 tons per day to 950 tons per day by adding a third solar glass line of 500 tons per day along with processing facilities. The expansion is expected to cost about INR 500 crore.
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This expansion and suppirt by GOI to Borosil is very very good… as India will require about 20 Million Tons of “Solar Glass” annually… to support a Zero Pollution Solution requiring 15TW by 2050… generating 18,000TWhrs/yr ( 12,000 KWhrs/person/yr for 1.5Billion people in India in 2050)…