{"id":267948,"date":"2019-04-04T05:41:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=267948"},"modified":"2019-04-04T05:41:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:41:19","slug":"a-third-of-global-electricity-generation-fuelled-by-renewable-sources-irena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-third-of-global-electricity-generation-fuelled-by-renewable-sources-irena\/","title":{"rendered":"A third of global electricity generation fuelled by renewable sources: IRENA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: There has been a global pivot towards clean energy sources with the energy dynamics been fundamentally altered. According to International Renewables Energy Agency (IRENA), a third of global power generation capacity or 2,351 giga watt (GW) is now being fuelled by renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>A 2 April IRENA report said that 171 GW of renewable energy was added in 2018, resulting in 2,351 GW or a third of global power generation capacity being fuelled by renewable sources. Interestingly, Asia accounted for 61% of new capacity in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsia continued to dominate the global solar capacity expansion with a 64 GW increase (about 70% of the global expansion in 2018). In a repeat of last year, China, India, Japan and Republic of Korea accounted for most of this,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: There has been a global pivot towards clean energy sources with the energy dynamics been fundamentally altered. According to International Renewables Energy Agency (IRENA), a third of global power generation capacity or 2,351 giga watt (GW) is now being fuelled by renewable energy sources. A 2 April IRENA report said that 171 GW of renewable energy was added in 2018, resulting in 2,351 GW or a third of global power generation capacity being fuelled by renewable sources. Interestingly, Asia accounted for 61% of new capacity in 2018. \u201cAsia continued to dominate the global solar capacity expansion with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}