India's Largest Solar Cell Line Goes Live - Localisation Moves Down the Stack, Not Yet to the Wafer

Premier Energies has commissioned a 7 GW solar cell facility in Andhra Pradesh - described as India''s largest - taking its total cell capacity to about 10.6 GW at a project cost of roughly Rs 3,293 crore. Cell manufacturing, not module assembly, is the import-dependent layer India has long bought from China; a domestic 7 GW cell line is a real move down the solar stack, though wafers and polysilicon upstream remain the deeper dependency.