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NSEFI is India’s solar policy advocacy body and an umbrella organisation representing solar energy companies that are active along the whole Solar value chain comprising of leading International, National, and regional companies including Solar Developers, Manufactures, EPC Contractors, Rooftop Installers, System Integrators, Manufacturers, Small and Medium Enterprises. NSEFI’s vision to make Solar Energy affordable in India is now achieved in less than a decade since India started accelerating its Solar energy installations. NSEFI works in a complimentary manner with Central and State Governments to achieve India’s National targets of 100 GW by 2022 & Renewable Target of 450 GW by 2030. NSEFI’s efforts have culminated into making India’s solar a successful growth story where India is today the 5th Largest country in terms of installed solar capacity.

As an industry body, NSEFI is at the helm of policy advocacy for the growth of Solar in India. NSEFI engages with multiple government stakeholders on regular basis based on the feedback from its members and provides its inputs on the policies pertaining to various subsectors of Indian Solar sector namely Utility Scale, Rooftop, Manufacturing, Microgrids, Agri-Solar (including Solar pumps), Storage and Green Hydrogen. NSEFI’s member base grew steadily from a humble number of 6 in 2013 to 142 in 2022, which makes NSEFI world’s 5th largest Solar association and South East Asia’s Largest Solar advocacy body. NSEFI members today represent almost 95% of India’s Solar market in terms of installed capacity.

NSEFI made significant and pivotal contributions to India’s Solar policy landscape in the last decade. Starting from Reverse Bidding, Net metering, Curtailment accountability to Production Linked Incentive Scheme, NSEFI united industry’s inputs and successfully advocated for reforms that have transformed India’s Solar Energy Generation Ecosystem. NSEFI serves on various committees’ set-up by MNRE that work on key issues of various subsectors of Solar Industry ecosystem including Determining Bench Mark Costs (rooftop and Solar pumps and Distributed Solar), PV Recycling, Agri-PV (of which NSEFI is the only Industry member), Solar Rooftop Awareness etc.

While being active at Domestic Policy Scenario, NSEFI has also expanded its wings globally making its mark on the Global Solar Policy. NSEFI is one of the co-founders and key members of Global Solar Council, a 38-country based Solar association body that was formed at the side-lines of COP 21 Paris in 2015. NSEFI is an active member of IRENA Coalition for action of which NSEFI Chairman served on the 7-member Global steering committee. NSEFI now chairs IRENA Coalition for Action Working Group on Renewables in Agriculture – Chaired by NSEFI CEO. NSEFI has strategic partnerships with its partners and counterparts in Europe (SolarPower Europe), Germany(BSW), Spain (UNEF), South Korea(KPIA), Israel(GEAI) and USA(SEIA). NSEFI in 2020 Signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with Vietnam Clean Energy Association in the presence of the Prime Ministers of India and Vietnam. NSEFI recently secured a 1 million EUR grant in 2021 for a period of 3 years for a joint Indo-German Association Level Partnership supported by German Ministry of Economy(BMZ).