{"id":259928,"date":"2019-02-20T05:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259928"},"modified":"2019-02-20T05:32:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:32:49","slug":"despite-concerns-ladakh-solar-plan-attracts-50-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-concerns-ladakh-solar-plan-attracts-50-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite concerns, Ladakh solar plan attracts 50 companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s ambitious plan to set up a 7,500 mw (mega watt) solar power project at an estimated investment of Rs 45,000 crore in Jammu &amp; Kashmir&#8217;s Ladakh region has whetted the appetite of some 50 topline companies, even as tariff emerged as the key concern. <\/p>\n<p>Prospective investors, including major manufacturers, raised a host of issues with the top brass of Solar Energy Corporation India (SECI), the implementing agency under the renewable energy ministry, at a pre-bid meeting on Monday. These ranged from the natural challenges to the bid structure. <\/p>\n<p>But the elephant in the room was definitely the security situation in the state. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government is committed to this project. It is a game-changer. The locations being offered are the safest,&#8221; Praveen Kumar, additional secretary in the ministry, said in response to questions from a few prospective investors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s ambitious plan to set up a 7,500 mw (mega watt) solar power project at an estimated investment of Rs 45,000 crore in Jammu &amp; Kashmir&#8217;s Ladakh region has whetted the appetite of some 50 topline companies, even as tariff emerged as the key concern. Prospective investors, including major manufacturers, raised a host of issues with the top brass of Solar Energy Corporation India (SECI), the implementing agency under the renewable energy ministry, at a pre-bid meeting on Monday. These ranged from the natural challenges to the bid structure. But the elephant in the room was definitely the security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}