{"id":399956,"date":"2021-02-10T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399956"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T07:10:58","slug":"india-to-overtake-eu-as-worlds-third-largest-energy-consumer-by-2030-iea-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-overtake-eu-as-worlds-third-largest-energy-consumer-by-2030-iea-3\/","title":{"rendered":"India to overtake EU as world\u2019s third largest energy consumer by 2030: IEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will overtake the European Union as the world\u2019s third-largest energy consumer by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday as it forecast India accounting for the biggest share of energy demand growth over the next two decades.<\/p>\n<p>In its India Energy Outlook 2021, IEA saw primary energy consumption almost doubling to 1,123 million tonnes of oil equivalent as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expands to USD 8.6 trillion by 2040. India at present is the fourth-largest global energy consumer behind China, the United States and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Underpinned by \u201ca rate of GDP growth that adds the equivalent of another Japan to the world economy by 2040\u201d, India will overtake the European Union by 2030 to move up to the third position, it said in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will overtake the European Union as the world\u2019s third-largest energy consumer by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday as it forecast India accounting for the biggest share of energy demand growth over the next two decades. In its India Energy Outlook 2021, IEA saw primary energy consumption almost doubling to 1,123 million tonnes of oil equivalent as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expands to USD 8.6 trillion by 2040. India at present is the fourth-largest global energy consumer behind China, the United States and the European Union. Underpinned by \u201ca rate of GDP growth that adds [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399956","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=399956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}