{"id":385999,"date":"2020-11-25T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385999"},"modified":"2020-11-25T09:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:39:05","slug":"solar-power-tariff-touches-record-low-of-rs-2-per-unit-in-seci-auction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-power-tariff-touches-record-low-of-rs-2-per-unit-in-seci-auction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power tariff touches record low of Rs 2 per unit in SECI auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falling solar equipment prices and increased participation of foreign and private equity-backed firms have dragged down the solar tariff in the country to a record low of Rs 2 per unit. This fall comes at a time when Indian solar power developers are facing import restrictions on Chinese solar equipment. <\/p>\n<p>In an auction held by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for 1,070-Mw solar power projects on Monday, Saudi Arabia-based Al Jomaih Energy and Water, and Green Infra Wind Energy, a unit of Singapore-based Sembcorp Industries, quoted the lowest rate for 200-Mw and 400-Mw capacity projects, respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falling solar equipment prices and increased participation of foreign and private equity-backed firms have dragged down the solar tariff in the country to a record low of Rs 2 per unit. This fall comes at a time when Indian solar power developers are facing import restrictions on Chinese solar equipment. In an auction held by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for 1,070-Mw solar power projects on Monday, Saudi Arabia-based Al Jomaih Energy and Water, and Green Infra Wind Energy, a unit of Singapore-based Sembcorp Industries, quoted the lowest rate for 200-Mw and 400-Mw capacity projects, respectively.<\/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-385999","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\/385999","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=385999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}