{"id":369493,"date":"2020-08-24T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T03:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369493"},"modified":"2020-08-24T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T04:01:35","slug":"indian-solar-projects-hit-as-chinese-solar-gear-prices-rise-for-the-first-time-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-solar-projects-hit-as-chinese-solar-gear-prices-rise-for-the-first-time-since-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian solar projects hit as Chinese solar gear prices rise for the first time since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Prices of Chinese solar modules have increased for the first time since 2017, making Indian developers apprehensive about returns on their projects because they import about 85% of the equipment from China.<\/p>\n<p>Two unexpected events have led to the recent increase \u2013 an explosion and subsequent damage to the production line at GCL Poly, a Chinese giant that accounts for about 30% of the world\u2019s poly-silicon production, and floods in China\u2019s southeast that forced temporary closure of another Chinese poly-silicon producing heavyweight, Tongwei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Prices of Chinese solar modules have increased for the first time since 2017, making Indian developers apprehensive about returns on their projects because they import about 85% of the equipment from China. Two unexpected events have led to the recent increase \u2013 an explosion and subsequent damage to the production line at GCL Poly, a Chinese giant that accounts for about 30% of the world\u2019s poly-silicon production, and floods in China\u2019s southeast that forced temporary closure of another Chinese poly-silicon producing heavyweight, Tongwei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369493","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}