{"id":401978,"date":"2021-02-25T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401978"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:05:29","slug":"india-renewables-firms-cry-foul-as-state-seeks-to-renege-on-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-renewables-firms-cry-foul-as-state-seeks-to-renege-on-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"India renewables firms cry foul as state seeks to renege on pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s federal government has stepped in to mediate a dispute between the state of Gujarat and solar power developers over the province\u2019s plan to backtrack on bids for a 700 megawatt project because of high tariffs and invite fresh ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly it is creating some disturbance in the renewable energy market,&#8221; Amitesh Kumar Sinha, joint secretary at the ministry told reporters in New Delhi about the initial discussion the ministry has had with the coastal state. \u201cWe will take up this issue further. We\u2019ll handle it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd., the parent body for electricity development in the state, had awarded the contracts to firms, including ReNew Power, Tata Power Co. and state-run SJVN Ltd. for building solar capacity at tariffs of as much as \u20b92.81 (4 cents) a kilowatt-hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s federal government has stepped in to mediate a dispute between the state of Gujarat and solar power developers over the province\u2019s plan to backtrack on bids for a 700 megawatt project because of high tariffs and invite fresh ones. \u201cCertainly it is creating some disturbance in the renewable energy market,&#8221; Amitesh Kumar Sinha, joint secretary at the ministry told reporters in New Delhi about the initial discussion the ministry has had with the coastal state. \u201cWe will take up this issue further. We\u2019ll handle it.&#8221; Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd., the parent body for electricity development in the state, [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401978","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=401978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}