{"id":279830,"date":"2019-07-02T06:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T06:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279830"},"modified":"2019-07-02T06:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T06:12:03","slug":"india-sees-boosting-green-power-by-2030-overtaking-climate-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-sees-boosting-green-power-by-2030-overtaking-climate-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"India sees boosting green power by 2030, overtaking climate goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar and wind energy projects may constitute over half of India\u2019s total power capacity by 2030, according to a draft report by the country\u2019s power-planning body, which sees the country surpassing its climate goals. <\/p>\n<p>Solar and wind projects are seen constituting 440 gigawatts of capacity out of the projected 831 gigawatts in more than a decade, the Central Electricity Authority said in the report Monday. All non-fossil fuel sources will form 65% of the total installed capacity and contribute around 48% of gross electricity generation. The share of coal in overall capacity is likely to drop to a third from about 56% now. Still, the polluting fuel will continue to produce half of the country\u2019s electricity by 2030, compared with about 72% now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar and wind energy projects may constitute over half of India\u2019s total power capacity by 2030, according to a draft report by the country\u2019s power-planning body, which sees the country surpassing its climate goals. Solar and wind projects are seen constituting 440 gigawatts of capacity out of the projected 831 gigawatts in more than a decade, the Central Electricity Authority said in the report Monday. All non-fossil fuel sources will form 65% of the total installed capacity and contribute around 48% of gross electricity generation. The share of coal in overall capacity is likely to drop to a third from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279830","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}