{"id":380716,"date":"2020-10-27T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380716"},"modified":"2020-10-27T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T03:24:36","slug":"india-will-drive-the-global-energy-demand-says-pm-narendra-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-will-drive-the-global-energy-demand-says-pm-narendra-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"India will drive the global energy demand, says PM Narendra Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will drive the global energy demand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday as he showcased his government&#8217;s recent reforms in the sector to global investors. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the India Energy Forum by CERAWeek, Modi said the coronavirus pandemic had resulted in global energy demand falling by one-third, investment decisions being impacted and predictions of a contraction in demand over the next few years. <\/p>\n<p>But India is likely to see energy consumption double over the long term, he said. <\/p>\n<p>This at a time when the country fast embraces cleaner and renewable sources of energy. <\/p>\n<p>India, he said, was on track to meet its COP21 commitment of raising electricity generation from renewable energy sources to 175 gigawatts by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will drive the global energy demand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday as he showcased his government&#8217;s recent reforms in the sector to global investors. Speaking at the India Energy Forum by CERAWeek, Modi said the coronavirus pandemic had resulted in global energy demand falling by one-third, investment decisions being impacted and predictions of a contraction in demand over the next few years. But India is likely to see energy consumption double over the long term, he said. This at a time when the country fast embraces cleaner and renewable sources of energy. India, he said, was on [&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":[135,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380716","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=380716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}