{"id":339447,"date":"2020-02-28T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339447"},"modified":"2020-02-28T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:21:25","slug":"govt-may-give-more-time-to-coronavirus-hit-solar-projects-to-complete-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-may-give-more-time-to-coronavirus-hit-solar-projects-to-complete-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt may give more time to coronavirus-hit solar projects to complete projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what could come as a huge relief for solar developers, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) will come up with guidelines for solar projects that could be delayed as a result of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Sources in the power sector told BusinessLine that the government is putting final touches to the guidelines, which will include an extension of timelines for completion of projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are given to understand that there could be extensions for projects without the risk of penalties,\u201d a Maharashtra-based solar developer said.<\/p>\n<p>An email sent to MNRE did not elicit a response.<\/p>\n<p>A force majeure clause is used when events beyond human control such as wars, riots, crimes, or natural calamities, occur, which can free both the parties from contractual liabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could come as a huge relief for solar developers, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) will come up with guidelines for solar projects that could be delayed as a result of the coronavirus. Sources in the power sector told BusinessLine that the government is putting final touches to the guidelines, which will include an extension of timelines for completion of projects. \u201cWe are given to understand that there could be extensions for projects without the risk of penalties,\u201d a Maharashtra-based solar developer said. An email sent to MNRE did not elicit a response. A force majeure [&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-339447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339447","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=339447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}