{"id":294957,"date":"2019-10-04T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T06:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294957"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T06:14:44","slug":"shell-takes-20-per-cent-stake-in-indian-solar-firm-orb-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shell-takes-20-per-cent-stake-in-indian-solar-firm-orb-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell takes 20 per cent stake in Indian solar firm Orb Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Royal Dutch Shell Plc division took a 20 per cent stake in Indian solar firm Orb Energy Pvt Ltd as part of a drive to deliver a reliable source of electricity to 10 crore people in the developing world by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Orb Energy, based in Bengaluru, provides credit to small and medium-sized firms to invest in solar panel systems. Founded in 2006, Orb Energy has sold over 1.6 lakh solar systems in India with a total capacity of 75 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>This is a vital and growing sector, with great potential to contribute to the country\u2019s renewable energy ambitions, Brian Davis, Vice President in the Shell Energy Solutions division said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Royal Dutch Shell Plc division took a 20 per cent stake in Indian solar firm Orb Energy Pvt Ltd as part of a drive to deliver a reliable source of electricity to 10 crore people in the developing world by 2030. Orb Energy, based in Bengaluru, provides credit to small and medium-sized firms to invest in solar panel systems. Founded in 2006, Orb Energy has sold over 1.6 lakh solar systems in India with a total capacity of 75 megawatts. This is a vital and growing sector, with great potential to contribute to the country\u2019s renewable energy ambitions, Brian [&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-294957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294957","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=294957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}