{"id":406961,"date":"2021-03-25T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T04:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406961"},"modified":"2021-03-25T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:57:18","slug":"solar-tariffs-likely-to-rise-in-near-term-icra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-tariffs-likely-to-rise-in-near-term-icra\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar tariffs likely to rise in near term: Icra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Policy support and tariff competitiveness will likely continue to drive investments in the renewable energy sector but delays in signing of power purchase agreements (PPAs) and power sale agreements (PSAs) are key downside risks, said Icra Ratings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>While solar power tariffs will see an expected increase due to the levy of the basic customs duty, they will likely remain below Rs3 per unit and cost competitive. <\/p>\n<p>The pandemic-induced restrictions had slowed down capacity addition in the renewable energy sector during the initial months of the current fiscal. However, beginning October, activity has picked up, ed by easing of lockdown curbs and supply chain challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Policy support and tariff competitiveness will likely continue to drive investments in the renewable energy sector but delays in signing of power purchase agreements (PPAs) and power sale agreements (PSAs) are key downside risks, said Icra Ratings on Wednesday. While solar power tariffs will see an expected increase due to the levy of the basic customs duty, they will likely remain below Rs3 per unit and cost competitive. The pandemic-induced restrictions had slowed down capacity addition in the renewable energy sector during the initial months of the current fiscal. However, beginning October, activity has picked up, ed by easing [&hellip;]<\/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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406961","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\/406961","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=406961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}