Founded in 1998, New Delhi-based Gautam Solar manufactures a wide range of solar products including solar panels, solar water pumps, rooftop solar power plant, battery, solar lights and fans, and solar inverter and charge controller. Over the last two decades, it set up an R&D centre and four factories in Haridwar for manufacturing solar components in the entire value chain of distributed solar. In May 2021, the company announced that it has started panel production from a new manufacturing line at its Haridwar factory in Uttarakhand. The company has more than doubled its annual solar panel manufacturing capacity, from 120 MW to 250 MW, at Haridwar making it the third-largest solar manufacturer in North India. The company also announced that it aims to produce 500 W+ solar modules in the future.