{"id":277540,"date":"2019-06-06T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=277540"},"modified":"2019-06-06T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T05:36:09","slug":"elections-take-a-toll-on-solar-new-installations-down-by-49-in-q1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/elections-take-a-toll-on-solar-new-installations-down-by-49-in-q1-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections take a toll on solar; new installations down by 49% in Q1 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installations in the Indian solar market dropped by 49 per cent year-on-year to 1,737 MW in Q1CY19 compared to 3,377 MW added in Q1 2018. In Q1 2019, investments in the Indian solar sector totaled over $2.8 billion, 12 per cent lower compared to investments made in Q1 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Activity in the Indian solar market was generally subdued due to general elections. Auction activity also grounded to a halt during the model code of conduct period. <\/p>\n<p>Mercom India Research forecasts India to install approximately 9 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in the calendar year 2019. <\/p>\n<p>According to Mercom India Research\u2019s newly released Q1 2019 India Solar Market Update, y-o-y installations have dropped by 49 per cent even though quarter-on-quarter the volume increased by four per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installations in the Indian solar market dropped by 49 per cent year-on-year to 1,737 MW in Q1CY19 compared to 3,377 MW added in Q1 2018. In Q1 2019, investments in the Indian solar sector totaled over $2.8 billion, 12 per cent lower compared to investments made in Q1 2018. Activity in the Indian solar market was generally subdued due to general elections. Auction activity also grounded to a halt during the model code of conduct period. Mercom India Research forecasts India to install approximately 9 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in the calendar year 2019. According to Mercom India Research\u2019s [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277540","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=277540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}