{"id":649494,"date":"2025-10-16T12:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649494"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:16:28","slug":"indias-solar-powered-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-solar-powered-ascent\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s solar-powered ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has reached a historic milestone, surpassing the 50% renewable energy threshold in its total installed capacity, a target initially set for 2030 that has now been achieved five years ahead of schedule. As stakeholders from vastly different domains\u2014one from industry and the other from public-facing entrepreneurship\u2014we\u2019ve both witnessed this transformation up close. What was once a distant policy aspiration is now a visible, tangible shift. This is a testament to the nation&#8217;s persistent resolve, which has always been rooted in walking the talk.<\/p>\n<p>While much of this journey is one we have both observed closely, one memory is personal to Dr Oberoi. \u201cYears ago, as I stood at the edge of the Charanka Solar Park in Gujarat, a vast expanse of panels glinted in the heat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has reached a historic milestone, surpassing the 50% renewable energy threshold in its total installed capacity, a target initially set for 2030 that has now been achieved five years ahead of schedule. As stakeholders from vastly different domains\u2014one from industry and the other from public-facing entrepreneurship\u2014we\u2019ve both witnessed this transformation up close. What was once a distant policy aspiration is now a visible, tangible shift. This is a testament to the nation&#8217;s persistent resolve, which has always been rooted in walking the talk. While much of this journey is one we have both observed closely, one memory is personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649494","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}