{"id":297542,"date":"2019-10-22T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T07:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297542"},"modified":"2019-10-22T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T07:09:23","slug":"solar-cells-made-of-blue-wafers-not-to-qualify-as-domestically-produced-under-govt-schemes-mnre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-cells-made-of-blue-wafers-not-to-qualify-as-domestically-produced-under-govt-schemes-mnre\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar cells made of blue wafers not to qualify as domestically produced under govt schemes: MNRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Oct 21 () The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on Monday said solar cells made up of imported semi-processed blue wafers would not qualify as domestically produced equipment for getting benefits under government schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has expressed hope that this would boost consumption of domestically manufactured solar PV cells which are getting incentives under various government schemes to promote renewable sources of energy in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the MNRE clarified that if diffused silicon wafer (generally called &#8216;Blue Wafer&#8217;) is imported and the same is used as raw material to manufacture solar cells in India, such cells shall not qualify as domestically manufactured solar PV cells, for the purpose of the ministry&#8217;s schemes or programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Oct 21 () The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on Monday said solar cells made up of imported semi-processed blue wafers would not qualify as domestically produced equipment for getting benefits under government schemes. The ministry has expressed hope that this would boost consumption of domestically manufactured solar PV cells which are getting incentives under various government schemes to promote renewable sources of energy in the country. In a statement, the MNRE clarified that if diffused silicon wafer (generally called &#8216;Blue Wafer&#8217;) is imported and the same is used as raw material to manufacture solar cells in [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297542","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=297542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}