{"id":17924,"date":"2016-11-22T07:50:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=17924"},"modified":"2016-11-22T07:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:50:43","slug":"india-us-launched-clean-energy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/india-us-launched-clean-energy-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"India and US launched clean energy projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently US announced two financial projects worth USD 95 million in India with the aim to-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Bring more energy-efficient appliances to rural sector<br \/>\n(b) Help in Clean India mission for the construction of toilets.<br \/>\n(c) Improve India&#8217;s basic infrastructure<br \/>\n(d) Promote latest technology in agriculture<br \/>\n<strong>Ans. (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 14 November 2016 US announced two financial projects worth USD 95 million in India .<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aim of the project is to bring more energy-efficient appliances to rural sector, as part of its efforts to continue the global transition to zero-and-low carbon energy sources.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US has committed USD 70 million in Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) financing for renewable energy projects in India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has also announced to launch a USD 20 million partnership this week with the philanthropic sector to bring more efficient appliances to rural Indian villages.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The USD 75 million OPIC financing has been allocated for a utility-scale PV project in Telangana.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is sponsored by Renew Power Ventures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/india-and-us-launch-usd-95-mln-clean-energy-projects-116111401616_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/india-and-us-launch-usd-95-mln-clean-energy-projects-116111401616_1.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/airworldservice.org\/english\/archives\/36482\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/airworldservice.org\/english\/archives\/36482<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/energy\/power\/india-and-us-launch-95-million-clean-energy-projects\/articleshow\/55421849.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/energy\/power\/india-and-us-launch-95-million-clean-energy-projects\/articleshow\/55421849.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently US announced two financial projects worth USD 95 million in India with the aim to- (a) Bring more energy-efficient appliances to rural sector (b) Help in Clean India mission for the construction of toilets. (c) Improve India&#8217;s basic infrastructure (d) Promote latest technology in agriculture Ans. (a) Related facts: On 14 November 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-17924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}