{"id":361605,"date":"2020-07-07T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361605"},"modified":"2020-07-07T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:30:38","slug":"punjab-wants-to-rework-solar-power-contract-with-cdpq-backed-azure-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-wants-to-rework-solar-power-contract-with-cdpq-backed-azure-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab wants to rework solar power contract with CDPQ-backed Azure Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Canadian pension fund Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec (CDPQ) backed Azure Power Global Ltd is among developers that the Congress- ruled Punjab government wants to renegotiate clean energy contracts with, said two people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>Starting 1 July, Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) that supplies electricity in the state, has sought a discount from solar power developers, on account of low interest rates and a financial crunch exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, Mint reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>An Azure Power spokesperson declined comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Canadian pension fund Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec (CDPQ) backed Azure Power Global Ltd is among developers that the Congress- ruled Punjab government wants to renegotiate clean energy contracts with, said two people aware of the development. Starting 1 July, Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) that supplies electricity in the state, has sought a discount from solar power developers, on account of low interest rates and a financial crunch exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, Mint reported on Monday. An Azure Power spokesperson declined comment.<\/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-361605","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\/361605","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=361605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}