{"id":270579,"date":"2019-04-23T05:26:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=270579"},"modified":"2019-04-23T05:26:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:26:07","slug":"seci-extends-deadline-for-3000-mw-solar-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/seci-extends-deadline-for-3000-mw-solar-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"SECI extends deadline for 3,000 MW solar tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has extended the deadline for receiving bids for the government\u2019s manufacturing-linked solar scheme to May 14. This is the third time the SECI has extended the date \u2013 original deadline was March 18, 2019. The scheme seeks to set up 3 gigawatt (GW) of solar plants against 1.5 GW of manufacturing units.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second phase of the tender launched in January 2019, after the government\u2019s maiden call for a similar contract had to be cancelled due to tepid industry response. SECI\u2019s initial invitation for a 10 GW of manufacturing-linked solar tender had received quotes for only 2 GW capacity put forward by Azure Power. The scheme had failed to attract developers even after the SECI had sweetened the terms for bidders multiple times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has extended the deadline for receiving bids for the government\u2019s manufacturing-linked solar scheme to May 14. This is the third time the SECI has extended the date \u2013 original deadline was March 18, 2019. The scheme seeks to set up 3 gigawatt (GW) of solar plants against 1.5 GW of manufacturing units. This is the second phase of the tender launched in January 2019, after the government\u2019s maiden call for a similar contract had to be cancelled due to tepid industry response. SECI\u2019s initial invitation for a 10 GW of manufacturing-linked solar tender [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270579","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\/270579","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=270579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}