{"id":404804,"date":"2021-03-15T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404804"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T06:05:52","slug":"with-an-eye-on-china-india-to-allow-only-approved-solar-pv-models-and-manufacturers-for-its-solar-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/with-an-eye-on-china-india-to-allow-only-approved-solar-pv-models-and-manufacturers-for-its-solar-play\/","title":{"rendered":"With an eye on China, India to allow only approved solar PV models and manufacturers for its solar play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In an attempt to discourage Chinese imports in India\u2019s growing green economy, the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has issued an order enforcing a list of approved solar photovoltaic (PV) models and module manufacturers for government-supported schemes, including projects from where distribution companies procure electricity for supply to their consumers.<\/p>\n<p>This approved list of 23 modules and manufacturers (ALMM) is a non-tariff barrier and part of India\u2019 strategy of erecting other obstacles, including subsidising finance for promoting local power equipment usage and prior-permission requirements for imports from countries with which it has a conflict, such as China.<\/p>\n<p>Mint had earlier reported about the move aimed to boost domestic manufacturing and to protect domestic companies from cheap and sub-standard imports. A similar scheme, the Registered List of Models and Manufacturers, exists for the Indian wind energy sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In an attempt to discourage Chinese imports in India\u2019s growing green economy, the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has issued an order enforcing a list of approved solar photovoltaic (PV) models and module manufacturers for government-supported schemes, including projects from where distribution companies procure electricity for supply to their consumers. This approved list of 23 modules and manufacturers (ALMM) is a non-tariff barrier and part of India\u2019 strategy of erecting other obstacles, including subsidising finance for promoting local power equipment usage and prior-permission requirements for imports from countries with which it has a conflict, such as [&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-404804","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\/404804","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=404804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}