{"id":1763,"date":"2016-06-12T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2017-01-16T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:25:37","slug":"us-firm-8minutenergy-to-build-solar-facility-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/12\/us-firm-8minutenergy-to-build-solar-facility-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"US firm 8minutenergy to build solar facility in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/19\/worlds-largest-rooftop-solar-power-plant-inaugurated-in-punjab\/download-21\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3109 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-21.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-21.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-21-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>A US renewable energy company, 8minutenergy Renewables LLC, will set up 4 GW of solar power capacity in India.\u201c8minutenergy Renewables will pursue a 4 GW solar photovoltaic project pipeline in India,\u201d a statement from the White House said. \u201cThese utility-scale solar projects are expected to generate over 10,000 jobs in the construction phase in India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Founded in 2009 by Martin Hermann and Tom Buttgenbach, the California-based company has 330 MW of operating solar plants. Plants of total capacity of 400 MW are under construction, while another 3,000 MW are in the pipeline. These include an 800 MW solar farm at Mount Signal in California, claimed to be the world\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Another US company, SunLink Corporation \u201cis partnering with Indian companies to deploy 1.4 GW of solar projects over the next five years,\u201d the statement said. SunLink manufactures solar racking systems, or the frames on which modules are mounted. It also provides performance monitoring solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">In the meantime, the US has announced the setting up of a Clean Energy Finance Hub, which \u201cwill serve as a coordinating mechanism to focus US Government effort that, in partnership with leading Indian financial institutions, will increase renewable energy investment in India,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/companies\/us-firm-8minutenergy-to-build-solar-facility-in-india\/article8714858.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/companies\/us-firm-8minutenergy-to-build-solar-facility-in-india\/article8714858.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US renewable energy company, 8minutenergy Renewables LLC, will set up 4 GW of solar power capacity in India.\u201c8minutenergy Renewables will pursue a 4 GW solar photovoltaic project pipeline in India,\u201d a statement from the White House said. \u201cThese utility-scale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/12\/us-firm-8minutenergy-to-build-solar-facility-in-india\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,497,5],"tags":[667,332,671,304,302,669,329,670,313,668],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-corporate-services","category-cross-border-transactions-mas-joint-ventures","category-india-international-corporate-updates","tag-8minutenergy-renewables-llc","tag-capital","tag-clean-energy-finance-hub","tag-foreign-direct-investment","tag-international","tag-martin-hermann-and-tom-buttgenbach","tag-solar","tag-sunlink-corporation","tag-us","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}