Sujana Energy, part of the Rs 5,850-crore diversified Sujana Group, is setting up an integrated manufacturing plant at Medchal near here at an estimated cost of Rs 50 crore. The plant will make solar thermal parabolic troughs, solar photo voltaic and LEDs among others.
Speaking to Business Standard, company managing director C Hari Kiran said the research and development for these products would happen at its US centre. The five-and-a-half-acre facility would be ready by May next year.
In the first year of operations, the plant would have a capacity of 30 Mw and 50 Mw in the second year. Further scaling would happen based on the demand.
“We have secured all clearances,” Kiran said. The investments would be from internal accruals. The company is targeting 25 per cent ebidta (earnings before interest depreciation, taxes and amortisation) margins and a topline of Rs 500 crore gradually.
According to him, solar thermal parabolic troughs would have better efficiency. They would be useful for laundry, biotechnology, water desalination and boilers.
The solar PV unit would have a capacity of 20 Mw while the LED unit would have a capacity of 2,00,000 lights a month.
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Among others, the company would offer organic ranking services - use of solar and biomass for increasing the efficiency of the power plant - in the range of 100 kw to 5 Mw. These would be ideal for village settings and self-help groups for powering water purification plants and other utilities.
Sujana Energy is doing a pilot at Chennai for a 4.5-Mw plant meeting 40 per cent of the fuel needs from solar and the remaining 60 per cent from biomass. The efficiency of the plant has now gone up to 60 per cent and brings in Rs 6.5 per unit through a power purchase agreement, he said.
“The number of orders for solar-based products from West Asia and Africa is on the rise,” he said, adding the business development team would be set up at these places. The company is also planning to set up a similar integrated plant in West Asia along with a local partner.