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Solar power projects delayed due to Covid-19-induced lockdown and disruption in supply chain from China have been granted five-month extension in their commissioning deadline. This comes in the wake of several renewable power developers cancelling their contracts, citing Covid-19.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in a notice on Thursday said all renewable energy implementing agencies will treat lockdown due to Covid-19 as ‘force majeure’. The time period stipulated by the MNRE is March 25 to August 24 for all renewable energy projects under implementation as of March 25.
“…This blanket extension, if invoked by the renewable energy developers, will
