{"id":261895,"date":"2019-03-01T05:49:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T05:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261895"},"modified":"2019-03-01T05:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T05:49:30","slug":"india-will-have-to-wait-for-worlds-cheapest-wind-power-as-delays-hit-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-will-have-to-wait-for-worlds-cheapest-wind-power-as-delays-hit-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"India will have to wait for world\u2019s cheapest wind power as delays hit projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has drawn global attention since it started awarding wind power projects at record-low tariffs, spurring optimism that renewable energy could supplant the nation\u2019s abundant coal resources in electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p>But about half of the more than one gigawatt of capacity awarded in the country\u2019s first auctions in 2017 are incomplete, almost five months after their commissioning deadline, according to J.N. Swain, managing director at state-owned Solar Energy Corp. of India, the agency tasked with implementing the country\u2019s renewable energy targets.<\/p>\n<p>The South Asian nation has awarded some of the world\u2019s lowest green energy tariffs and became the biggest auctioneer of solar and wind capacity last year, according to Bloomberg NEF. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has drawn global attention since it started awarding wind power projects at record-low tariffs, spurring optimism that renewable energy could supplant the nation\u2019s abundant coal resources in electricity generation. But about half of the more than one gigawatt of capacity awarded in the country\u2019s first auctions in 2017 are incomplete, almost five months after their commissioning deadline, according to J.N. Swain, managing director at state-owned Solar Energy Corp. of India, the agency tasked with implementing the country\u2019s renewable energy targets. The South Asian nation has awarded some of the world\u2019s lowest green energy tariffs and became the biggest auctioneer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261895","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}