{"id":615749,"date":"2023-11-07T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=615749"},"modified":"2023-11-07T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T06:32:29","slug":"report-calls-for-domestic-thrust-to-attain-solar-superpower-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/report-calls-for-domestic-thrust-to-attain-solar-superpower-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Report calls for domestic thrust to attain solar superpower status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: India\u2019s aspiration to become a &#8220;solar superpower&#8221; hinges on production of a key raw material, polysilicon. This is a semiconductor that helps convert photons to electricity and is used in the production of solar cells and modules.<\/p>\n<p>However, India is currently dependent on polysilicon (and solar cells\/panels) imports, mainly from China. But the country&#8217;s willingness to enhance its solar capacity increasingly depends on making the domestic manufacturing ecosystem robust, according to a new report by the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), a think tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: India\u2019s aspiration to become a &#8220;solar superpower&#8221; hinges on production of a key raw material, polysilicon. This is a semiconductor that helps convert photons to electricity and is used in the production of solar cells and modules. However, India is currently dependent on polysilicon (and solar cells\/panels) imports, mainly from China. But the country&#8217;s willingness to enhance its solar capacity increasingly depends on making the domestic manufacturing ecosystem robust, according to a new report by the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), a think tank.<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615749","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=615749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}