{"id":341456,"date":"2020-03-11T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341456"},"modified":"2020-03-11T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T07:04:44","slug":"green-energy-on-the-rise-globally-but-china-continues-to-play-coal-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/green-energy-on-the-rise-globally-but-china-continues-to-play-coal-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Green energy on the rise globally, but China continues to play coal more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity generation from wind and solar rose 15 per cent in 2019. Research done by Ember, a London-based, independent climate think-tank, wind and solar plants around the world accounted for 8 per cent of the world\u2019s electricity, against 3 per cent in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>India contributed its mite, achieving 13 per cent growth in wind+solar electricity \u2014 8 per cent of India\u2019s electricity generation came from these two sources in 2019 \u2014 but the big boost to renewable energy came from the EU, which also grew 13 per cent, but on a higher base. <\/p>\n<p>The world produced 270 billion units more wind and solar electricity in 2019, the second fastest growth ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity generation from wind and solar rose 15 per cent in 2019. Research done by Ember, a London-based, independent climate think-tank, wind and solar plants around the world accounted for 8 per cent of the world\u2019s electricity, against 3 per cent in 2013. India contributed its mite, achieving 13 per cent growth in wind+solar electricity \u2014 8 per cent of India\u2019s electricity generation came from these two sources in 2019 \u2014 but the big boost to renewable energy came from the EU, which also grew 13 per cent, but on a higher base. The world produced 270 billion units more [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341456","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=341456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}