Interview With Mr. Vikas Jain – Director, Insolation Energy Pvt. Ltd.
- Please describe in brief about your company, directors, promoters, investors, its vision & mission
Inspired from ‘make in India’ campaign, Insolation Energy has been formed by the combined efforts of senior industrialists Mr. Manish Gupta and Mr. Vikas Jain having experience of more than 17 years in various sectors like Steel, Industrial Solutions, Real Estates, Health & Fitness and Independent Solar Power Producer Business. Their aim is to provide clean and green electricity at affordable price to one and all.
Vision is to provide high quality and cost-effective solutions across areas of operations in emerging as well as developed markets while leveraging on the goodwill and experience of the group and Management expertise
- Enlighten the product & services you are offering along with technology advancement?
Insolation Energy, an ISO 9001:2015 certified, MNRE approved & MNRE Channel Partner Company has state-of-the-art fully automatic manufacturing facility in Jaipur (Rajasthan) of 60MW per annum for Solar PV Modules in the range of 3Wp to 350Wp using poly & mono crystalline cells. We have most modern production line with a robotic plant in a very hygienic and fully air-conditioned environment where enough care is taken to avoid manual handling of material as well as finished products. Modules also certified for UL at underwriters laboratory for USA. Up to 18% module efficiency & PID free. Multiple EL testing for defect free modules & high conversion Efficiency due to ARC coated glass. Some of our most popular Modules this year include:
- Sapphire Series 72 Poly Crystalline
- Sapphire Series 60 Poly Crystalline
We also offer customized OEM Solutions. We are constant focus on increasing of technology efficiency evaluating technologies to improve technology through PERC technology & start to all testing in house.
- How much modules have you supplied to India till now, what is the target/expectation in 2017-18
Till Now in this year 14MW and expected 40 MW in 2017-2018
- The recent aggressive bidding by various developers keeping Solar Tariffs in the price range of Rs.2.44-3.3 per kWh in various Solar Tenders…Whats your view on the viability, Costs & timeline pressures, Resource Challenges (Materials, ManPower, Execution, Grid Connection, Land Possession) etc…
As we know tariff price is Rs 2.44-3.3per/kwh ,this is very low for this with consider the quality of raw material and other manufacturing factor need to make in high volume production with least rejection.
Globally solar cells prices are increasing for maintain this need to more production & cant compromise with quality for a long term power performance.
In a last one month Cell prices increases very high 15-20% , a very big challenge for bidder /power project developers to meet the cost which they have given because modules pricing increasing day by day.
- Kindly enlighten our readers on the performance of your modules in India in various geographic locations, customer feedback,
Our PV module performance is better in all kind of geographical locations also we have conducted more than 30 test in-house and field performance from our own make solar panel in our 2MW project in Ujjain with approx 6 MW in OEM
- Present some noteworthy projects, case studies of solar plants built using your solar modules
We have installed the 2 MW own INA make solar pv module in Ujjain ,that has been commissioned in Q1 ,working fine and generation is higher as per our expectation due to all modules installed microcrack defect free and PID free with 5 BB solar cells .same response form our Customer .
- What is the size of your company in terms of manufacturing capacities, growth chart, future expansion plans, revenues, shipments, ASP’s, financial figures,
60MW Fully turnkey line by Jinchen with inline CCD camera in stringer ,layup , pre and post EL with other quality checking equipments with inline automatic visual inspection for avoid the microcrack.
- How much is your R&D budget as % of your sales / profits
Our R&D team having professional highly qualified experience person in PV industry with having experience in backword integrations –cells ,Module & EPC, management has been decide day by day R&D team will do work for newly product and issue budget 2 % of total profit .
- Technology road map in terms of 1500V , Double Glass, BiFacial Cells, PERC/PERT Technologies, HIT/HJT, IBC upcoming game changes technologies
Our Product development and Engineering team already working for new IEC certification with new BOM and product which stands for 1500 V with PERC cells for better performance in power plants .also we are designing and implementation stage for glass to glass & Bifacial module for save the space.
- Explain various guarantees, warrantees, insurance, certifications, test results, performance report of your modules
INA Modules follow industry international standards, giving the 12 years product workmanship and 90% power for 12 years and 80 % up to 25 years performance.
We have the all IEC certificates IEC 61215, IEC 61730 Ed.1 & 2, IEC 61701, IEC 62804, MNRE, CE, we are the authorized channel partner of MNRE .
We supplied the module to customer from our factory to primary customer with a marine policy.
For performance you can see the data generation of our projects which has been commissioned at different locations.
- Kindly highlight your product, technology & company USP’s, distinctive advantages etc…
Our product having 5BB poly & PERC cells PID free module with latest standards 96 hours 3 cycle and microcrack defect free,also with narrow bin for avoid the mismatch of array or losses in current.
- What are the trends in new manufacturing technology equipment, materials, processes, innovations etc…
We are working for Bifacial ,back to back contact and merlin technology module for a new product ,also working for 1500 V certifications .
- As a module manufacturer provided 25 years warranties….is it backed up by warranties by cell manufacturer, materials manufacturers ?
All raw material not give the warranty for this type of time frame only up to shelf life , this warranty only as per our process standards and other in house inline and offline testing or say as per industry standards.
- Comment on the warranty claim rate, rejections, replacements etc…
As per our company details warranty if any modules does not meet the standards or not working will replace the same ,but we have not get any complained from customers so far.
