{"id":352443,"date":"2020-05-21T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352443"},"modified":"2020-05-21T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T06:16:34","slug":"covid-19-india-to-add-only-5000-mw-solar-capacity-in-2020-says-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-india-to-add-only-5000-mw-solar-capacity-in-2020-says-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: India to add only 5,000 MW solar capacity in 2020, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With project timelines getting extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, India is expected to add only 5,000 MW of solar capacity in 2020, nearly 32 per cent lower than last year, a report has said. <\/p>\n<p>India added 1,080 MW solar capacity in the first quarter of 2020, which is the lowest in a quarter since October-December (Q4) 2016, industry tracker Mercom said in a report. <\/p>\n<p>Solar installations during the January-March quarter were down 39 per cent as compared to 1,761 MW added in the corresponding period last year. <\/p>\n<p>The country added 7,346 MW solar capacity in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lockdown in the country disrupted the supply chain, lowered power demand, resulted in currency fluctuations making component costs unpredictable, and has exacerbated the liquidity issues,&#8221; Mercom Capital Group Chief Executive Raj Prabhu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With project timelines getting extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, India is expected to add only 5,000 MW of solar capacity in 2020, nearly 32 per cent lower than last year, a report has said. India added 1,080 MW solar capacity in the first quarter of 2020, which is the lowest in a quarter since October-December (Q4) 2016, industry tracker Mercom said in a report. Solar installations during the January-March quarter were down 39 per cent as compared to 1,761 MW added in the corresponding period last year. The country added 7,346 MW solar capacity in 2019. &#8220;The lockdown in [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352443","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=352443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}