{"id":272181,"date":"2019-05-01T05:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272181"},"modified":"2019-05-01T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:49:33","slug":"solar-power-swings-between-hope-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-power-swings-between-hope-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power swings between hope &amp; despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pairing of \u2018hope and despair\u2019 has probably never been done better than in 2018-19 for the Indian solar sector. The fact that the government tendered out capacities of 14,230 MW in the previous year spawned joyous hope at the beginning of the year; the denouement, however, was anti-climactic.<\/p>\n<p>2018-19 turned out to be a forgettable year, with fresh capacity additions tottering to a paltry 6,529 MW as against 9,010 MW in the previous year, according to data supplied by the Central Electricity Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Coming on top of a dismal performance by the solar\u2019s sister, the wind industry, which added a mere 1,580 MW in 2018-19, it was a forgettable year for the whole of the renewable energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pairing of \u2018hope and despair\u2019 has probably never been done better than in 2018-19 for the Indian solar sector. The fact that the government tendered out capacities of 14,230 MW in the previous year spawned joyous hope at the beginning of the year; the denouement, however, was anti-climactic. 2018-19 turned out to be a forgettable year, with fresh capacity additions tottering to a paltry 6,529 MW as against 9,010 MW in the previous year, according to data supplied by the Central Electricity Authority. Coming on top of a dismal performance by the solar\u2019s sister, the wind industry, which added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272181","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}