{"id":311028,"date":"2020-01-18T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T06:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=311028"},"modified":"2020-01-18T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T06:38:10","slug":"green-energy-boomed-in-britain-over-last-three-years-survey-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/green-energy-boomed-in-britain-over-last-three-years-survey-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Green energy boomed in Britain over last three years: Survey data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London: Green energy has boomed in Britain over the last three years, according to survey data published Thursday which also highlighted accelerating investment in wind power.<\/p>\n<p>Turnover in Britain&#8217;s low carbon and renewable energy sector expanded 15.5 percent to \u00a346.7 billion ($60.8 billion, 54.6 billion euros) in 2018 compared with 2015, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>That rapid growth helped create and sustain a total of 224,800 full-time jobs, compared with 200,800 three years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion was achieved against the backdrop of Britain&#8217;s long-standing vow to become carbon neutral by 2050, when it hopes to achieve net zero for UK greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Green energy has boomed in Britain over the last three years, according to survey data published Thursday which also highlighted accelerating investment in wind power. Turnover in Britain&#8217;s low carbon and renewable energy sector expanded 15.5 percent to \u00a346.7 billion ($60.8 billion, 54.6 billion euros) in 2018 compared with 2015, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a report. That rapid growth helped create and sustain a total of 224,800 full-time jobs, compared with 200,800 three years earlier. The expansion was achieved against the backdrop of Britain&#8217;s long-standing vow to become carbon neutral by 2050, when it hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-311028","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\/311028","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}