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 took place, 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 took place in Munich. This was followed by an international CEO Roundtable with Indian participation on 30 September 2024 in Berlin.
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 104 GW and India with 100 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.
Solar PV manufacturing along the solar value chain
R & D
Other areas of cooperation in the field of Solar PV (innovative Solar PV)
Group photo of the National CEO Roundtable Germany / India at Intersolar Europe 2024.
Background paper
A comprehensive overview of important information regarding the project can be found in the following PDF leaflet
PV Supply Chain Resilience & Sustainability
As part of the EU-India Clean Energy and Climate Partnership, the National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) and SolarPower Europe collaborated on a project analysing supply chain relations between India and the EU. The findings are presented in the following study:
German institutes and researchers in the solar sector are still world leaders. In India, in turn, there are strong efforts to catch up with the world leaders in solar research and development. To support these efforts, we organized and supervised a top-class delegation of German research institutes as part of the project in February 2025. We worked closely with our sister association from the research sector, the ForschungsVerbund Eneuerbare Energie (FVEE). The trip, which took us to IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani and NISE, among others, was a complete success. Four Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) to initiate future cooperation were signed as part of the activities.
30.09.2024: International CEO Roundtable India / Germany
Leaders from interested BSW-Solar member companies met with Indian CEOs from the solar industry and representatives of the Indian partner association NSEFI for an international CEO roundtable on September 30 in the Golden Hall of Schöneberg\’s town hall.Together they discussed challenges, possible collaborations and prospects for Indo-German cooperation in the solar industry.
20.06.2024: National CEO Roundtable Germany
The interested member companies of BSW prepared for the meeting with future Indian partners in a preparatory CEO Roundtable in Munich as a side event of Intersolar Europe on 20 June 2024. The international CEO Roundtable of both countries will then take place on 30 September 2024 in Berlin.
08.05.2024: National CEO Roundtable India
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.
