{"id":74918,"date":"2026-02-01T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:46:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:46:04","slug":"duty-exemption-on-atomic-energy-bess-sodium-antimonate-to-boost-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74918","title":{"rendered":"Duty exemption on atomic energy, BESS, sodium antimonate to boost energy transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duty exemption on atomic energy, BESS, sodium antimonate to boost energy transition<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 1-2-2026<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) The government on Sunday proposed customs duty exemptions to encourage investments in nuclear power, battery energy storage and sodium antimonate to boost non-fossil fuel-based energy generation.<br \/>\n This assumes significance in view of India&#39;s ambitious target of having 500 GW of renewable energy.<br \/>\n India is required to add at least 50 GW of renewable energy per annum capacity by 2030 to achieve this target.<br \/>\n Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech in the Lok Sabha, said, &#8220;I propose to extend the basic customs duty exemption given to capital goods used for manufacturing Lithium-Ion<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=69464\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>uclear Power Projects till the year 2035 and expand it for all nuclear plants irrespective of their capacity.<br \/>\n About the biogas blended CNG (compressed natural gas), she said, &#8220;I propose to exclude the entire value of biogas while calculating the Central Excise duty payable on biogas blended CNG.&#8221; \t There has been an industry for this exemption to boost the bio-energy sector in the country.<br \/>\n Indian Biogas Association (IBA) Chairman Gaurav Kedia said this progressive measure shall open a wider market for bio-CNG\/CBG, thus bolstering efforts towards reduced trade deficit.<br \/>\n It is a strong signal of the government&#39;s commitment to clean energy, circular economy principles, and the promotion of domestically produced renewable fuels, he said.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=69464\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duty exemption on atomic energy, BESS, sodium antimonate to boost energy transitionGSTDated:- 1-2-2026PTINew Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) The government on Sunday proposed customs duty exemptions to encourage investments in nuclear power, battery energy storage and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}