{"id":369017,"date":"2020-08-21T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369017"},"modified":"2020-08-21T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:50:38","slug":"discoms-leave-16-8gw-solar-and-wind-projects-in-a-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-leave-16-8gw-solar-and-wind-projects-in-a-bind\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms leave 16.8GW solar and wind projects in a bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In what may impact India\u2019s green economy and potentially dent its rules-based regime image, falling clean-power tariffs has put an already awarded 16.8 gigawatt (GW) solar and wind energy capacity in limbo, said two people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>Fund-starved state electricity distribution companies (discoms) are unwilling to sign contracts with intermediary procurers such as state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for these previously-awarded projects at a comparatively higher tariff. Due to the recent low-price bids, the discoms are tariff-shopping and are reluctant to ink power supply agreements (PSAs) for these projects that involve a potential investment of around \u20b960,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s solar power tariffs hit a record low of \u20b92.36 per unit during a bid conducted by SECI in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In what may impact India\u2019s green economy and potentially dent its rules-based regime image, falling clean-power tariffs has put an already awarded 16.8 gigawatt (GW) solar and wind energy capacity in limbo, said two people aware of the development. Fund-starved state electricity distribution companies (discoms) are unwilling to sign contracts with intermediary procurers such as state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for these previously-awarded projects at a comparatively higher tariff. Due to the recent low-price bids, the discoms are tariff-shopping and are reluctant to ink power supply agreements (PSAs) for these projects that involve a potential investment [&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-369017","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\/369017","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=369017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}