{"id":645135,"date":"2025-09-06T09:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645135"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:28:04","slug":"government-cuts-gst-on-solar-and-wind-energy-boosting-green-tech-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-cuts-gst-on-solar-and-wind-energy-boosting-green-tech-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Government cuts GST on solar and wind energy, boosting green tech adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar and wind energy equipment, including modules and cells, along with biogas plants, are among the items that will now attract a lower goods and services tax of 5%, down from 12%. In contrast, coal and lignite will see their GST rate raised to 18% from the current 5%. <\/p>\n<p>The move is expected to give a further push to the green energy sector and bring down tariffs in the segment, thereby encouraging wider adoption by states and industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar and wind energy equipment, including modules and cells, along with biogas plants, are among the items that will now attract a lower goods and services tax of 5%, down from 12%. In contrast, coal and lignite will see their GST rate raised to 18% from the current 5%. The move is expected to give a further push to the green energy sector and bring down tariffs in the segment, thereby encouraging wider adoption by states and industry.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645135","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\/645135","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=645135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}