{"id":380813,"date":"2020-10-27T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380813"},"modified":"2020-10-27T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:29:40","slug":"pm-modi-sticks-to-energy-targets-despite-demand-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modi-sticks-to-energy-targets-despite-demand-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi sticks to energy targets despite demand slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to achieving India\u2019s energy-security goals, including the raising of the country\u2019s renewable energy capacity to 175 giga watt (GW) by 2022 from under 95 GW now and oil refining capacity to 400 million tonne (mt) from 250 mt at present. Amid dire predictions of a contraction in global energy demand over the next few years (it dropped by a third in Q1), Modi stressed that India would emerge as a \u201cleading energy consumer\u201d, with a likely near doubling of its consumption over the long-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to achieving India\u2019s energy-security goals, including the raising of the country\u2019s renewable energy capacity to 175 giga watt (GW) by 2022 from under 95 GW now and oil refining capacity to 400 million tonne (mt) from 250 mt at present. Amid dire predictions of a contraction in global energy demand over the next few years (it dropped by a third in Q1), Modi stressed that India would emerge as a \u201cleading energy consumer\u201d, with a likely near doubling of its consumption over the long-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380813","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}