{"id":362481,"date":"2020-07-13T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362481"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:42:38","slug":"firms-line-up-to-create-roadmap-for-indias-global-solar-grid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/firms-line-up-to-create-roadmap-for-indias-global-solar-grid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms line up to create roadmap for India\u2019s global solar grid plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : French government-owned power utility \u00c9lectricit\u00e9 de France SA (EDF) and consulting firms McKinsey &amp; Co., Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Kearney, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are among entities that have shown interest in creating the roadmap for a global solar grid planned by India, two people aware of the development said.<\/p>\n<p>These companies plan to participate in a request for proposal (RFP) called by India\u2019s ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) for consultants, the two people said on condition of anonymity. The chosen consultant will help develop a long-term roadmap, including a technical and financial proposal, for the \u2018One Sun One World One Grid\u2019 (OSOWOG) to transfer solar power across borders. The World Bank is providing technical assistance for the ambitious task.<\/p>\n<p>A World Bank spokesperson in an emailed response said, \u201cWe don\u2019t have access to this information at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : French government-owned power utility \u00c9lectricit\u00e9 de France SA (EDF) and consulting firms McKinsey &amp; Co., Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Kearney, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are among entities that have shown interest in creating the roadmap for a global solar grid planned by India, two people aware of the development said. These companies plan to participate in a request for proposal (RFP) called by India\u2019s ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) for consultants, the two people said on condition of anonymity. The chosen consultant will help develop a long-term roadmap, including a technical and financial proposal, for [&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-362481","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\/362481","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=362481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}