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Why Borosil Renewables Has No Local Competition
A country with a 100 GW solar power target has only one solar glass manufacturer.
09 Apr 2021, 12:38 AM IST i

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Photovoltaic cells sit on a glass solar panel. (Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)
Fans of Peter Thiel’s Zero To One book and its focus on building monopoly businesses will be drawn to the Borosil Renewables story. But will they buy into it?The 10-year-old company has in that decade remained India’s only manufacturer of solar glass, used to make modules for solar power generation. In that time India has doubled its emphasis on solar power with a target of 100 gigawatts by 2022. And though the country is barely half...

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