Axitec Energy, headquartered at Germany, is making its presence felt within the worldwide markets of USA, Brazil, Turkey, Australia, Vietnam with a robust presence in India, the place it’s deliberate capability of n-type TOPCon photo voltaic modules of 300 MW in Gujarat and 300 MW in Tamil Nadu. Tanmoy Duari, CEO, Axitec Energy speaks in regards to the rising recognition of n-type TOPCon and the compares the competing applied sciences. 

Please give us an perception into the launch of TOPCon expertise by Axitec. 

We have launched n-type TOPCon for the Indian market. The photo voltaic module business is presently in a state of flux. There is a changeover taking place from the common p-type mono-perc to the n-type, both a TOPCon or the HJT, which mainly are competing applied sciences with their very own deserves and downsides. However, what I see is that in the end the business will determine what guarantees one of the best cost-benefit benefit.

The distinction between p-type MONO-PERC- the same old modules that we’re producing proper now and  n-type modules is that the semiconductor. Earlier, we had the P or the constructive kind semiconductor, now we’ve the N or the destructive kind semiconductor. The benefit with the n-type is that the extent of degradation is sort of low. With the p-type, we had a degradation of two.5% within the first 12 months whereas with the n-type, it’s about 1%, which is nearly negligible. So, in consequence, although the n-type is costlier, you find yourself with larger era output. As a end result, you earn again faster and you’ve got larger revenues. Well, that’s a techno-commercial query that the shopper has to reply. We are ready for the n-type TOPCon expertise to stabilise and I feel that’s going to occur within the subsequent six months.

Between HJT and TOPCon, HJT provides extra power effectivity however cost-wise it’s TOPCon which is less expensive. So how would you evaluate the 2 and which do you suppose is best from the producer’s standpoint?

Interesting query. They are competing applied sciences. HJT has a really slight technical edge over the TOPCon expertise. However, it’s a lot simpler to transform the present manufacturing capacities to a TOPCon somewhat than an HJT. As a end result, TOPCon is less expensive than an HJT and other people will have the ability to swap over and stabilise their manufacturing capacities a lot sooner. Ultimately TOPCon ought to be the winner and that’s what we’re betting on. Sometimes it isn’t about one of the best expertise, it’s the finest worth for cash that you just get, and therefore TOPCon appears to be the winner proper now.

Are the MONO-PERC days behind us?

From what we perceive, a whole lot of manufacturing services of standard MONO-PERC modules are switching over to the n-type TOPCon. Hence within the very close to future, I’d say within the time window of let’s say, seven to eight months, in all probability seventy per cent of the market might be captured by n-type expertise, both HJT or TOPCon, And p-type goes to die out.

Tell us about your put in capacities and what are your future ambitions?

There are two markets particularly, one is the world market after which there’s an Indian market, and it isn’t obligatory that the Indian market follows the world state of affairs. The Indian market could be very sizzling proper now as a result of we’ve a number of authorities insurance policies which information, and make folks purchase or not purchase at a selected time limit. For instance, ALMM is one in every of them. Having stated that, for us, worldwide we’ve performed greater than 5 gigawatts of photo voltaic set up. In India, we’ve performed greater than 175 megawatts, nevertheless, this 12 months itself I feel we must always have the ability to add one other 300-350 megawatts itself. So, for us, the expansion in India, although we began actually late, total, could be very encouraging for us, and we see a really brilliant future within the Indian market.

Tell us about your US tasks?

Yes, we’re fairly fashionable within the US however our explicit key phase there’s small rooftops somewhat than the massive scale tasks. When you take a look at absolutely the numbers when it comes to megawatts and gigawatts, they’re in all probability much less. But once you take a look at the variety of tasks put in with Axitec, it’s a good quantity. We are fairly fashionable within the shopper phase or in a B2C phase.