{"id":429121,"date":"2021-08-05T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T05:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429121"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T05:37:08","slug":"safeguard-duty-removal-on-solar-panels-to-end-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/safeguard-duty-removal-on-solar-panels-to-end-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguard duty removal on solar panels to end disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre\u2019s decision to remove safeguard duty on the solar panels will make the modules cheaper by 14.1% and restart project implementation at a full speed. Solar power developers in the state said that due to the increase in prices, there was a slowdown in the implementation of the projects.<\/p>\n<p>An executive member of Rajasthan Solar Association said, \u201cMany projects were going slow because of the 30-40% hike in panel prices. Projects are bid at a certain price keeping in investments and margins. A small variation in panel prices are absorbed by the developers. But when the difference is as high as 40% in panel prices, it becomes unstainable. Hope the withdrawal of safegurad duty will expedite project implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre\u2019s decision to remove safeguard duty on the solar panels will make the modules cheaper by 14.1% and restart project implementation at a full speed. Solar power developers in the state said that due to the increase in prices, there was a slowdown in the implementation of the projects. An executive member of Rajasthan Solar Association said, \u201cMany projects were going slow because of the 30-40% hike in panel prices. Projects are bid at a certain price keeping in investments and margins. A small variation in panel prices are absorbed by the developers. But when the difference is as [&hellip;]<\/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-429121","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\/429121","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=429121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}