{"id":385466,"date":"2020-11-21T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385466"},"modified":"2020-11-21T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:51:16","slug":"covid-scars-indias-solar-plan-capacity-addition-down-68-in-9-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-scars-indias-solar-plan-capacity-addition-down-68-in-9-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid scars India&#8217;s solar plan, capacity addition down 68% in 9 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Coronavirus pandemic has left a big dent in India\u2019s solar plan, although the industry is showing signs of recovery as new capacity jumped 114% to 438 megawatts (MW) in the third quarter from 205 MW installed in the second quarter as supply chains get restored.<br \/>\nGreen energy market tracker Mercom\u2019s latest report on Friday outlined the impact by pointing out the third-quarter installations were 80% less than 2,177 MW added in the corresponding period of 2019. Similarly, total installations for the nine-month period were down 68% to 1.7 gigawatts (GW) from 5.48 GW added in the same period of 2019.<br \/>\nLarge-scale installations showed improvement at 283 MW in the third quarter against 120 MW in the previous quarter, but the number was still down 85% compared to 1,932 MW installed in the year-ago period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Coronavirus pandemic has left a big dent in India\u2019s solar plan, although the industry is showing signs of recovery as new capacity jumped 114% to 438 megawatts (MW) in the third quarter from 205 MW installed in the second quarter as supply chains get restored. Green energy market tracker Mercom\u2019s latest report on Friday outlined the impact by pointing out the third-quarter installations were 80% less than 2,177 MW added in the corresponding period of 2019. Similarly, total installations for the nine-month period were down 68% to 1.7 gigawatts (GW) from 5.48 GW added in the same [&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-385466","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\/385466","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=385466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}