{"id":537984,"date":"2022-11-23T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537984"},"modified":"2022-11-23T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T08:35:41","slug":"govt-wants-solar-manufacturers-to-bid-for-2-4-billion-in-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-wants-solar-manufacturers-to-bid-for-2-4-billion-in-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt wants solar manufacturers to bid for $2.4 billion in aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is looking for takers for $2.4 billion in government aid it\u2019s offering to stimulate domestic manufacturing of solar power equipment. <\/p>\n<p>The state-run Solar Energy Corp. of India is seeking bids from solar manufacturers for 195 billion rupees of financial incentives, according to documents published on the agency\u2019s website. The government is seeking to grow the country\u2019s module-making capacity to as much as 90 gigawatts, enough to meet its own requirements and serve export markets. <\/p>\n<p>Reliance Industries Ltd. and Adani Group, industrial giants run by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, were winners in a previous round of solar manufacturing incentives and are eligible to apply again for building additional capacity, the bid documents show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is looking for takers for $2.4 billion in government aid it\u2019s offering to stimulate domestic manufacturing of solar power equipment. The state-run Solar Energy Corp. of India is seeking bids from solar manufacturers for 195 billion rupees of financial incentives, according to documents published on the agency\u2019s website. The government is seeking to grow the country\u2019s module-making capacity to as much as 90 gigawatts, enough to meet its own requirements and serve export markets. Reliance Industries Ltd. and Adani Group, industrial giants run by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, were winners in a previous round of solar manufacturing [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537984","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=537984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}