{"id":360476,"date":"2020-07-01T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T05:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=360476"},"modified":"2020-07-01T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T05:54:54","slug":"govt-plans-pass-through-in-tariffs-for-already-bid-out-solar-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-plans-pass-through-in-tariffs-for-already-bid-out-solar-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt plans pass-through in tariffs for already bid-out solar projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The government plans to allow a pass-through in power tariffs for projects awarded before the basic customs duty (BCD) on imported solar cells, modules, and inverters is imposed from 1 August, to protect solar project developers, said two people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>The move could lead to an increase in electricity tariffs but is being done to help developers set up these projects and maintain India\u2019s clean energy trajectory as the government tightens its economic squeeze on China. An Indian is willing to pay more for power, provided the equipment is made in India, power and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh had said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>With tensions mounting along the India-China border, India is working on a wider decoupling exercise that involves imposing tariff and non-tariff barriers to check Chinese imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The government plans to allow a pass-through in power tariffs for projects awarded before the basic customs duty (BCD) on imported solar cells, modules, and inverters is imposed from 1 August, to protect solar project developers, said two people aware of the development. The move could lead to an increase in electricity tariffs but is being done to help developers set up these projects and maintain India\u2019s clean energy trajectory as the government tightens its economic squeeze on China. An Indian is willing to pay more for power, provided the equipment is made in India, power and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360476","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}