{"id":399781,"date":"2021-02-10T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399781"},"modified":"2021-02-10T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T05:16:20","slug":"india-to-be-biggest-driver-of-global-energy-demand-growth-in-next-2-decades-iea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-be-biggest-driver-of-global-energy-demand-growth-in-next-2-decades-iea\/","title":{"rendered":"India to be biggest driver of global energy demand growth in next 2 decades: IEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India will be the main driver of rising demand for energy over the next two decades, accounting for 25% of global growth, and is set to overtake the European Union as the world&#8217;s third-biggest energy consumer by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s energy consumption is expected to nearly double as the nation&#8217;s gross domestic product expands to an estimated $8.6 trillion by 2040 under its current national policy scenario, the IEA said in its India Energy Outlook 2021 released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is underpinned by a rate of GDP growth that adds the equivalent of another Japan to the world economy by 2040,&#8221; said the IEA, the energy agency and policy adviser for members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India will be the main driver of rising demand for energy over the next two decades, accounting for 25% of global growth, and is set to overtake the European Union as the world&#8217;s third-biggest energy consumer by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. India&#8217;s energy consumption is expected to nearly double as the nation&#8217;s gross domestic product expands to an estimated $8.6 trillion by 2040 under its current national policy scenario, the IEA said in its India Energy Outlook 2021 released on Tuesday. &#8220;This is underpinned by a rate of GDP growth that adds the equivalent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399781","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}