{"id":355321,"date":"2020-06-03T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355321"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T06:59:47","slug":"solar-power-will-soon-cost-less-than-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-power-will-soon-cost-less-than-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power will soon cost less than coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New solar and wind farms will soon cost less than many of the world\u2019s coal-fired power plants, and governments should invest in them to boost economies amid the coronavirus, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. Coal plants with a capacity of up to 1,200 gigawatts will probably be more expensive to run by next year than new, large-scale photovoltaic solar plants, said the organization, which advises countries on curbing their use of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRenewables must be the backbone of national efforts to restart economies in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak,\u201d the Abu Dhabi-based agency\u2019s director general, Francesco La Camera, said in a report Tuesday. \u201cWe have reached an important turning point in the energy transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New solar and wind farms will soon cost less than many of the world\u2019s coal-fired power plants, and governments should invest in them to boost economies amid the coronavirus, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. Coal plants with a capacity of up to 1,200 gigawatts will probably be more expensive to run by next year than new, large-scale photovoltaic solar plants, said the organization, which advises countries on curbing their use of fossil fuels. \u201cRenewables must be the backbone of national efforts to restart economies in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak,\u201d the Abu Dhabi-based agency\u2019s director general, Francesco [&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-355321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355321","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=355321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}