{"id":338557,"date":"2020-02-21T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T07:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338557"},"modified":"2020-02-21T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T07:55:28","slug":"solar-capacity-addition-down-12-to-7346-mw-in-2019-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-capacity-addition-down-12-to-7346-mw-in-2019-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar capacity addition down 12% to 7,346 MW in 2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s solar energy capacity addition dipped 12% to 7,346 megawatts (MW) in the calender year 2019 from 8,338 MW in 2018, according to a report by Mercom India Research.<\/p>\n<p>While 2019 was a lost year for the country\u2019s solar sector, Mercom India Research expects solar installations to rise by 17% year-on-year (y-o-y) to about 8,500 MW by the end of 2020. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country installed 7,346 MW of solar in 2019, a 12% decline year-over-year (YoY), compared to 8,338 MW installed in 2018,\u201d according to the report titled \u2018Q4 &amp; Annual 2019 India Solar Market Update\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It also estimates solar installations in the range of 65-70 gigawatt (GW) by 2022, based on the current market conditions. The government has set a solar installation target of 100 GW by 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s solar energy capacity addition dipped 12% to 7,346 megawatts (MW) in the calender year 2019 from 8,338 MW in 2018, according to a report by Mercom India Research. While 2019 was a lost year for the country\u2019s solar sector, Mercom India Research expects solar installations to rise by 17% year-on-year (y-o-y) to about 8,500 MW by the end of 2020. \u201cThe country installed 7,346 MW of solar in 2019, a 12% decline year-over-year (YoY), compared to 8,338 MW installed in 2018,\u201d according to the report titled \u2018Q4 &amp; Annual 2019 India Solar Market Update\u2019. It also estimates solar installations [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338557","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=338557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}