{"id":614050,"date":"2023-11-01T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=614050"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T05:19:45","slug":"isa-hikes-viability-gap-funding-for-solar-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/isa-hikes-viability-gap-funding-for-solar-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"ISA hikes viability gap funding for solar projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The International Solar Alliance (ISA) has increased the viability gap funding for solar projects to 35% from 10% of the project cost, a move aimed at pushing renewable energy adoption and encouraging private sector participation in developing countries, especially in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alliance, through its viability gap funding mechanism, provides a grant of $150,000 or 10% of the project cost, whichever is lower, per country per project. The assembly decided to increase the range to 35% of the project cost,&#8221; power minister RK Singh, who is also the president of the alliance, said while addressing a press conference on the organisation&#8217;s sixth assembly here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The International Solar Alliance (ISA) has increased the viability gap funding for solar projects to 35% from 10% of the project cost, a move aimed at pushing renewable energy adoption and encouraging private sector participation in developing countries, especially in Africa. &#8220;The alliance, through its viability gap funding mechanism, provides a grant of $150,000 or 10% of the project cost, whichever is lower, per country per project. The assembly decided to increase the range to 35% of the project cost,&#8221; power minister RK Singh, who is also the president of the alliance, said while addressing a press conference [&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-614050","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\/614050","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=614050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}