{"id":369023,"date":"2020-08-21T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369023"},"modified":"2020-08-21T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T05:01:32","slug":"solar-projects-equal-to-40-capacity-awarded-since-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-projects-equal-to-40-capacity-awarded-since-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar projects equal to 40% capacity awarded since February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s solar power space has emerged as a bright spot for investors amid the global slowdown, with contracts for 14,000MW (mega watt) of new projects, roughly 40% of the current installed capacity, being awarded since the coronavirus pandemic hit the world, government data shows.<\/p>\n<p>At a ballpark cost of Rs 4 crore per MW, one of the lowest in the world, the projects awarded since February would entail investments of Rs 56,000 crore. These include 8,000MW capacity with local manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of these bids were put in when economies across the world were under lockdown. India went into lockdown from March 25 and gradually started lifting the curbs from June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s solar power space has emerged as a bright spot for investors amid the global slowdown, with contracts for 14,000MW (mega watt) of new projects, roughly 40% of the current installed capacity, being awarded since the coronavirus pandemic hit the world, government data shows. At a ballpark cost of Rs 4 crore per MW, one of the lowest in the world, the projects awarded since February would entail investments of Rs 56,000 crore. These include 8,000MW capacity with local manufacturing. A majority of these bids were put in when economies across the world were under lockdown. India went [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369023","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=369023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}