{"id":362971,"date":"2020-07-16T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362971"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:20:45","slug":"to-counter-chinas-belt-road-project-india-leverages-isa-to-light-up-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/to-counter-chinas-belt-road-project-india-leverages-isa-to-light-up-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"To counter China&#8217;s Belt &amp; Road project, India leverages ISA to light up Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India will leverage its solar power credentials to reclaim lost ground in Africa, with state-run NTPC Ltd planning to help International Solar Alliance&#8217; (ISA) member countries\u2014Gambia and Malawi\u2014develop solar power parks to meet electricity demand, said two people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>After landing the project management consultancy contracts for developing solar parks in Mali and Togo, India\u2019s largest power generation utility is also eyeing similar opportunities in other ISA member countries from Africa\u2014 Sudan, Mozambique, Egypt, Uganda, Rwanda and Niger.<\/p>\n<p>This comes in the backdrop of China\u2019s attempt to co-opt countries into its \u2018One Belt One Road\u2019 initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India will leverage its solar power credentials to reclaim lost ground in Africa, with state-run NTPC Ltd planning to help International Solar Alliance&#8217; (ISA) member countries\u2014Gambia and Malawi\u2014develop solar power parks to meet electricity demand, said two people aware of the development. After landing the project management consultancy contracts for developing solar parks in Mali and Togo, India\u2019s largest power generation utility is also eyeing similar opportunities in other ISA member countries from Africa\u2014 Sudan, Mozambique, Egypt, Uganda, Rwanda and Niger. This comes in the backdrop of China\u2019s attempt to co-opt countries into its \u2018One Belt One Road\u2019 [&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-362971","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\/362971","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=362971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}