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Parliamentary committee questions low bids, project quality in solar sector

Recommends high dumping duty on imports, support to domestic industry

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From 2030, solar would begin to sideline coal in India, with the pace of photovoltaic (PV) additions more than doubling from the 2020s.

Shreya Jai New Delhi
As tariffs in the solar power sector touch record lows, a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy has raised apprehensions over the quality of equipment used in these projects. At the same time, it has recommended a high anti-dumping duty on low-quality imports and a financial push for the domestic solar manufacturing industry.

"The Committee notes that in a rush to build market share in this sector, some players have become aggressive in competitive auction and are bidding at very low tariff. The Committee is apprehensive about the quality of the material used. We are of the view that some of these