{"id":381091,"date":"2020-10-29T08:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T03:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381091"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T03:27:26","slug":"us-pitches-cheaper-solar-tech-to-india-amid-high-dependence-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-pitches-cheaper-solar-tech-to-india-amid-high-dependence-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US pitches cheaper solar tech to India amid high dependence on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI (Reuters) &#8211; The United States wants India to explore manufacturing a cheaper alternative to silicon solar cells, U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said on Wednesday, amid high dependence on Chinese technology. <\/p>\n<p>Brouillette, who was addressing a virtual press conference at the conclusion of the India energy forum at the IHS CERA Week, said India was &#8220;perfectly positioned as a potential manufacturer&#8221; of perovskite cells, on which the U.S. was conducting research at its national laboratory in Colorado. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen recently with this pandemic, supply chain issues have arisen with countries like China and in certain cases we have become overly dependent upon one country,&#8221; Brouillette said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI (Reuters) &#8211; The United States wants India to explore manufacturing a cheaper alternative to silicon solar cells, U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said on Wednesday, amid high dependence on Chinese technology. Brouillette, who was addressing a virtual press conference at the conclusion of the India energy forum at the IHS CERA Week, said India was &#8220;perfectly positioned as a potential manufacturer&#8221; of perovskite cells, on which the U.S. was conducting research at its national laboratory in Colorado. &#8220;We have seen recently with this pandemic, supply chain issues have arisen with countries like China and in certain cases we have [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381091","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=381091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}