{"id":648703,"date":"2025-10-04T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648703"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:01:57","slug":"govt-tells-renewable-energy-agencies-to-cancel-rushed-solar-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-tells-renewable-energy-agencies-to-cancel-rushed-solar-tenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt tells renewable energy agencies to cancel rushed solar tenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s renewable energy ministry has asked clean energy agencies to cancel and reissue tenders for government projects that were rushed through in an attempt to circumvent certain rules, according to a Friday circular posted on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Most Indian companies use cheaper China-made solar cells, but, starting June 1, rules under India&#8217;s clean energy policy require developers of government projects to use only locally-made modules and cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s renewable energy ministry has asked clean energy agencies to cancel and reissue tenders for government projects that were rushed through in an attempt to circumvent certain rules, according to a Friday circular posted on its website. Most Indian companies use cheaper China-made solar cells, but, starting June 1, rules under India&#8217;s clean energy policy require developers of government projects to use only locally-made modules and cells.<\/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-648703","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\/648703","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=648703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}