{"id":309275,"date":"2020-01-07T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T07:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309275"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T07:09:14","slug":"proposed-carbon-tax-waiver-on-coal-may-pose-risks-to-indias-renewables-growth-fitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/proposed-carbon-tax-waiver-on-coal-may-pose-risks-to-indias-renewables-growth-fitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed carbon tax waiver on coal may pose risks to India&#8217;s renewables growth: Fitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Fitch Solutions on Monday said that the centre&#8217;s proposed carbon tax waiver on coal may pose substantial downside risks to India&#8217;s renewable sector growth.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to alleviate significant debt levels in the power industry, India has proposed to waive carbon taxes on coal (Rs 400 rupees\/tonne), it said.<\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time where aggressive bidding and rapid fall in tariff prices in country&#8217;s renewable power auctions have squeezed profit margins for project developers and threatened the economic feasibility of the project pipeline in the renewables sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Fitch Solutions on Monday said that the centre&#8217;s proposed carbon tax waiver on coal may pose substantial downside risks to India&#8217;s renewable sector growth. In a bid to alleviate significant debt levels in the power industry, India has proposed to waive carbon taxes on coal (Rs 400 rupees\/tonne), it said. This comes at a time where aggressive bidding and rapid fall in tariff prices in country&#8217;s renewable power auctions have squeezed profit margins for project developers and threatened the economic feasibility of the project pipeline in the renewables sector.<\/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":[210,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309275","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=309275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}