{"id":365306,"date":"2020-07-29T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T05:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365306"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:07:49","slug":"what-the-world-gets-if-us-electricity-becomes-100-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/what-the-world-gets-if-us-electricity-becomes-100-green\/","title":{"rendered":"What the world gets if US electricity becomes 100% green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The perfectly green electricity grid sought by Joe Biden isn\u2019t the end of the fight against global warming. It\u2019s the beginning. <\/p>\n<p>Today, 40% of America\u2019s electricity comes from carbon-free sources. The Democratic presidential candidate has made getting that to 100% by 2035 a centerpiece of his $2 trillion plan to address climate change and create jobs. Getting there would take an enormous expansion of solar and wind capacity in the US, backed by mass adoption of energy-storage technologies and hanging onto existing hydroelectric and nuclear plants. <\/p>\n<p>Policy experts question the 15-year timetable for eliminating emissions from the electrical system, which would indeed be an immense challenge. About a quarter of all US emissions today come from electricity production, according to the US Energy Information Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perfectly green electricity grid sought by Joe Biden isn\u2019t the end of the fight against global warming. It\u2019s the beginning. Today, 40% of America\u2019s electricity comes from carbon-free sources. The Democratic presidential candidate has made getting that to 100% by 2035 a centerpiece of his $2 trillion plan to address climate change and create jobs. Getting there would take an enormous expansion of solar and wind capacity in the US, backed by mass adoption of energy-storage technologies and hanging onto existing hydroelectric and nuclear plants. Policy experts question the 15-year timetable for eliminating emissions from the electrical system, which [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365306","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=365306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}