{"id":404552,"date":"2021-03-12T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404552"},"modified":"2021-03-12T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:33:10","slug":"solar-tariff-to-rise-as-custom-duty-on-gear-to-kick-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-tariff-to-rise-as-custom-duty-on-gear-to-kick-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Tariff to rise as custom duty on gear to kick in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The days of solar tariff bids at Rs 2 a unit may be over, as project cost is set to rise after the government announced the much-awaited customs duty on key equipment, aimed at boosting local manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>India will levy customs duty of 40% on solar modules and 25% on solar cells beginning April 2022. The country has a safeguard duty on these equipment that expires in July. Indian solar equipment manufacturers have been demanding customs duty for a \u201clevel playing field\u201d with foreign manufacturers. But solar project developers will now have to factor in the higher cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The days of solar tariff bids at Rs 2 a unit may be over, as project cost is set to rise after the government announced the much-awaited customs duty on key equipment, aimed at boosting local manufacturing. India will levy customs duty of 40% on solar modules and 25% on solar cells beginning April 2022. The country has a safeguard duty on these equipment that expires in July. Indian solar equipment manufacturers have been demanding customs duty for a \u201clevel playing field\u201d with foreign manufacturers. But solar project developers will now have to factor in the higher cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-404552","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\/404552","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}