{"id":396770,"date":"2021-01-22T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T05:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396770"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T05:55:25","slug":"china-doubles-new-renewable-capacity-in-2020-but-continues-to-builds-thermal-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-doubles-new-renewable-capacity-in-2020-but-continues-to-builds-thermal-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"China doubles new renewable capacity in 2020, but continues to builds thermal plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING | SHANGHAI: China more than doubled its construction of new wind and solar power plants in 2020 from a year earlier, government data showed, reflecting Beijing&#8217;s pledge to cut fossil fuel dependence and bring carbon emissions to a peak within a decade.<\/p>\n<p>China, the world&#8217;s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, added 71.67 gigawatts (GW) of wind power capacity last year, the most ever and nearly triple 2019&#8217;s levels, according to data released by the National Energy Administration (NEA) late Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING | SHANGHAI: China more than doubled its construction of new wind and solar power plants in 2020 from a year earlier, government data showed, reflecting Beijing&#8217;s pledge to cut fossil fuel dependence and bring carbon emissions to a peak within a decade. China, the world&#8217;s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, added 71.67 gigawatts (GW) of wind power capacity last year, the most ever and nearly triple 2019&#8217;s levels, according to data released by the National Energy Administration (NEA) late Wednesday.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396770","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=396770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}