{"id":465819,"date":"2022-02-03T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465819"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:26:39","slug":"budget-lists-steps-to-make-india-solar-powerhouse-without-chinas-help-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-lists-steps-to-make-india-solar-powerhouse-without-chinas-help-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget lists steps to make India solar powerhouse without China&#8217;s help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is pressing ahead with plans to curb reliance on China, the dominant producer of solar power equipment, even as it seeks to add huge volumes of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of measures in Tuesday\u2019s budget will help Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s efforts to extend his government\u2019s made-in-India campaign to the clean power sector, in which about 80% of all solar hardware is imported from the nation\u2019s northern neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Grants of Rs 19,500 crore ($2.6 billion) are being added to spur local equipment production, while there\u2019ll also be a 40% tax on imports of solar modules and 25% on cells from the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>India, the world\u2019s third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, plans to more than quadruple its renewable power generation capacity to 450 gigawatts by 2030, including 280 gigawatts of solar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is pressing ahead with plans to curb reliance on China, the dominant producer of solar power equipment, even as it seeks to add huge volumes of renewable energy. A pair of measures in Tuesday\u2019s budget will help Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s efforts to extend his government\u2019s made-in-India campaign to the clean power sector, in which about 80% of all solar hardware is imported from the nation\u2019s northern neighbor. Grants of Rs 19,500 crore ($2.6 billion) are being added to spur local equipment production, while there\u2019ll also be a 40% tax on imports of solar modules and 25% on cells [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465819","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=465819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}