{"id":515390,"date":"2022-08-20T09:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T04:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=515390"},"modified":"2022-08-20T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T04:33:54","slug":"india-adds-record-7-2-gw-solar-capacity-in-jan-jun-2022-mercom-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-adds-record-7-2-gw-solar-capacity-in-jan-jun-2022-mercom-india\/","title":{"rendered":"India adds record 7.2 GW solar capacity in Jan-Jun 2022: Mercom India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar capacity installations in the country rose by 59 per cent to record 7.2 gigawatt (GW) during first half of 2022, according to Mercom India Research.<\/p>\n<p>In January-June or H1 of 2021, the country had added 4.5 GW solar capacity, the research firm&#8217;s &#8216;Q2 2022 India Solar Market Update&#8217; released on Thursday said.<\/p>\n<p>The solar installations in April-June period of 2022 also increased by 59 per cent to over 3.9 GW compared to 2.4 GW installed in second quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sector has witnessed the highest ever quarterly and half-yearly solar capacity additions,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s cumulative installed solar capacity now stands at 57 GW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar capacity installations in the country rose by 59 per cent to record 7.2 gigawatt (GW) during first half of 2022, according to Mercom India Research. In January-June or H1 of 2021, the country had added 4.5 GW solar capacity, the research firm&#8217;s &#8216;Q2 2022 India Solar Market Update&#8217; released on Thursday said. The solar installations in April-June period of 2022 also increased by 59 per cent to over 3.9 GW compared to 2.4 GW installed in second quarter of 2021. &#8220;The sector has witnessed the highest ever quarterly and half-yearly solar capacity additions,&#8221; it said. India&#8217;s cumulative installed solar [&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-515390","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\/515390","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=515390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}