{"id":556218,"date":"2023-02-17T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=556218"},"modified":"2023-02-17T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T04:56:06","slug":"indias-plan-to-lift-curbs-on-solar-imports-to-hit-local-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-plan-to-lift-curbs-on-solar-imports-to-hit-local-production\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s plan to lift curbs on solar imports to hit local production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s plan to lift a key trade barrier on solar modules will deliver a blow to the nation\u2019s ambition of quickly expanding local production, according to domestic manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are considering a relaxation of rules for the next two years that restrict imports from China and other foreign producers, because local plants can\u2019t keep up with rising demand.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal risks stalling efforts by Indian companies to expand local production, a step that\u2019s seen as crucial to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s targets to both raise the use of renewable energy and encourage more manufacturing under his \u201cMake in India\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s plan to lift a key trade barrier on solar modules will deliver a blow to the nation\u2019s ambition of quickly expanding local production, according to domestic manufacturers. Officials are considering a relaxation of rules for the next two years that restrict imports from China and other foreign producers, because local plants can\u2019t keep up with rising demand. The proposal risks stalling efforts by Indian companies to expand local production, a step that\u2019s seen as crucial to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s targets to both raise the use of renewable energy and encourage more manufacturing under his \u201cMake in India\u201d [&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-556218","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\/556218","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=556218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}