India wins solar case against the US in WTO

NEW DELHI: India received a shot in the arm in its fight against some US states offering favourable treatment to domestic renewable energy systems and components with a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel backing its complaint. The panel on Thursday ruled in favour of New Delhi which had claimed that subsidies and mandatory local content requirements in 11 renewable energy programmes in eight American states are inconsistent with global trade rules.

India had requested consultations with the US in September 2016 regarding certain measures relating to domestic content requirements and subsidies instituted by the governments of the US states of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, and Washington, in the renewable energy sector. These states were offering incentives such as renewable