{"id":348997,"date":"2020-05-01T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=348997"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:51:35","slug":"roof-solar-capacity-growth-falls-7-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/roof-solar-capacity-growth-falls-7-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Roof solar capacity growth falls 7% in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s renewable energy push has come under strain, with a 7% on-year fall in solar rooftop capacity building in 2019 ending an eight-year run of continuous growth in demand. Demand is likely to fall further in 2020 owing to disruptions caused by Covid-19, according to a report by consultancy firm Bridge to India.<\/p>\n<p>This is a cause for concern for the government, which has declared renewable power an essential service amid the lockdown to keep up growth.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018India Solar Rooftop Map Report\u2019 says India\u2019s rooftop installed capacity stood at 5,440 mw on December 31, 2019, adding only 1,534 mw that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s renewable energy push has come under strain, with a 7% on-year fall in solar rooftop capacity building in 2019 ending an eight-year run of continuous growth in demand. Demand is likely to fall further in 2020 owing to disruptions caused by Covid-19, according to a report by consultancy firm Bridge to India. This is a cause for concern for the government, which has declared renewable power an essential service amid the lockdown to keep up growth. The \u2018India Solar Rooftop Map Report\u2019 says India\u2019s rooftop installed capacity stood at 5,440 mw on December 31, 2019, adding only [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348997","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=348997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}