{"id":399871,"date":"2021-02-10T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T05:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399871"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:11:54","slug":"india-to-pip-eu-as-worlds-3rd-largest-power-consumer-by-2040-iea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-pip-eu-as-worlds-3rd-largest-power-consumer-by-2040-iea\/","title":{"rendered":"India to pip EU as world&#8217;s 3rd largest power consumer by 2040: IEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India will dislodge the European Union as the world\u2019s third-largest energy consumer by 2030 as urbanised population expands and rapid economic growth pulls more people out of poverty, says the International Energy Agency\u2019s second \u2018India Energy Outlook\u2019 released on Tuesday.<br \/>\nBy 2040, India\u2019s electricity system will be larger than the EU in terms of generation capacity and the country will have more renewable capacity than the US.<br \/>\nThe country will contribute 25% of the global growth in energy demand through 2040, posting the largest increase for any country, \u201cunderpinned by a rate of GDP growth that adds the equivalent of another Japan by 2040,\u201d the report says.<br \/>\nBut this will also pose twin challenges of securing energy supplies and meeting the \u201cswelling demand without exacerbating issues like costly energy imports, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India will dislodge the European Union as the world\u2019s third-largest energy consumer by 2030 as urbanised population expands and rapid economic growth pulls more people out of poverty, says the International Energy Agency\u2019s second \u2018India Energy Outlook\u2019 released on Tuesday. By 2040, India\u2019s electricity system will be larger than the EU in terms of generation capacity and the country will have more renewable capacity than the US. The country will contribute 25% of the global growth in energy demand through 2040, posting the largest increase for any country, \u201cunderpinned by a rate of GDP growth that adds the [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399871","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=399871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}