German engineering and electronics major Bosch India will focus on setting up rooftop solar plants for its industrial clients, while remaining cautious towards utility scale projects.
Venugopalan C M, Head – Energy Division, Bosch India is of the opinion that the enterprise category or industrial clients are their focus category. For he believes that it is where a big change over a period of time will take place.
By the end of 2016, the company aims to double its capacity in solar energy generation.
Going beyond, it also intends to penetrate key industry sectors contributing to their energy efficiency measures.
The company’s key projects include the 1-MW solar plant for Maruti Suzuki Ltd in Manesar and the 12-MW solar project for Cochin International Airport Ltd.
Vengopalan said that the company will aim to get more airport and seaport projects to set up solar plants for such customers.
Commenting on the company’s plans to take part in bids for utility scale solar power plants, Venugopalan added that they are taking part in some of the bids. He further expressed that they are doing it very selectively.
Asked whether the tariffs play a part in the company focussing on the rooftop plants for enterprise customers, he agreed that for the customer savings over diesel gensets or even industrial electricity tariffs makes sense.
He notified that large enterprise customers have direct high tension lines coming to their plants but they are still going for green solutions like solar power plants. Venugopalan added that there is a design challenge for any project. Therefore, besides tariffs they also have to remain cost competitive.
By Baishakhi Dutta
