A subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries will make investments US$12 million to accumulate a 20% stake in Caelux Company, a California-based firm engaged on perovskite photo voltaic expertise.
Reliance New Power Restricted has additionally entered right into a strategic partnership settlement with Caelux for technical collaboration and commercialisation of the latter’s expertise.
A spin-out from the California Institute of Know-how, Caelux plans to assemble a pilot plant within the Los Angeles metropolitan space to reveal the feasibility of scaling perovskites. Its commercialisation roadmap consists of growing manufacturing websites within the US, Asia and Latin America.
Reliance Industries, which introduced final month it can begin manufacturing at a 10GW photo voltaic cell and module manufacturing facility within the Indian state of Gujarat by 2024, stated it will likely be in a position leverage Caelux’s expertise to supply extra highly effective and lower-cost modules.
“We consider Caelux’s proprietary perovskite-based photo voltaic expertise offers us with entry to subsequent leg of innovation in crystalline photo voltaic modules,” stated Mukesh Ambani, managing director of Reliance Industries.
The acquisition doesn’t require any regulatory approval and is predicted to be accomplished by the top of September.
Since saying a US$10.1 billion clear power plan final 12 months, Reliance Industries has acquired module producer REC Group and invested in German wafer expertise firm NexWafe.
The conglomerate has additionally secured funding from India’s production-linked incentive programme to arrange module manufacturing within the nation.
