{"id":646831,"date":"2025-09-18T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646831"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:48:45","slug":"gst-on-renewable-energy-devices-rationalised-to-5-to-accelerate-indias-clean-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gst-on-renewable-energy-devices-rationalised-to-5-to-accelerate-indias-clean-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"GST on renewable energy devices rationalised to 5% to accelerate India&#8217;s clean energy transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): The rationalization of GST rates across the renewable energy value chain from 12 per cent to 5 per cent will bring down the cost of clean energy projects, making electricity more affordable and directly benefiting households, farmers, industries, and developers. <\/p>\n<p>As per a release by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the capital cost of a utility-scale solar project, which typically amounts to around Rs. 3.5-4 crore per MW, will now see savings of Rs. 20-25 lakh per MW. At the scale of a 500 MW solar park, this translates into project cost reductions of over Rs. 100 crore, significantly improving tariff competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): The rationalization of GST rates across the renewable energy value chain from 12 per cent to 5 per cent will bring down the cost of clean energy projects, making electricity more affordable and directly benefiting households, farmers, industries, and developers. As per a release by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the capital cost of a utility-scale solar project, which typically amounts to around Rs. 3.5-4 crore per MW, will now see savings of Rs. 20-25 lakh per MW. At the scale of a 500 MW solar park, this translates into project cost [&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":[130,247,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646831","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=646831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}