5. Suggestions from Stakeholder

50% of the respondents mentioned that the Indian Solar sector is the game of a few top creamy players who have enough equity to invest. 35% of the respondents voted that only national level tenders are aggressive such as SECI, NTPC as they have payment security. 15% of the respondents are saying aggressiveness is limited to a few big players who have good investors back-up, those players are not able to compete whose sources of projects fundings are mostly from the bank.

Privatization of discoms does bring efficiency, but getting away from the monopolies of these distribution companies will help. Just the privatization may not help. The critical one is the separation of carriage and content; so that the consumers should be allowed to buy electricity from wherever they want. That is the critical reform. In our survey, 75% of the respondents want discoms should get privatized for better improvement of the power sector, while 25% are fine with the current discoms operation.

80% of the respondents are very happy with the new draft Electricity Amendment Bill (2021), as they (consumers) have the rights to choose. While 20% of the respondents are curious to know about the previous obligation of the distribution companies after the amendment, so don’t want amendment in the short- term.

40% of the respondents majorly domestic manufacturers are very happy with the imposition of BCD on foreign cells and modules, but few of them have questions among the participants, what will be the quality of the modules, even though the procurer will support BCD on foreign modules. While the majority of the respondents such as 60% are against BCD on modules, as developers want the extension of BCD date for a few quarters, foreign suppliers are against this. Project developers are happy to support the domestic manufacturers with BCD but it’s an early call from the government side they said.