{"id":400777,"date":"2021-02-17T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=400777"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:10:58","slug":"indias-coal-power-use-may-have-already-peaked-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-coal-power-use-may-have-already-peaked-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s coal power use may have already peaked, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s use of coal may have peaked in 2018, according to a new report by according to U.K.-based clean energy group Ember. That\u2019s sooner than many experts have forecast.  <\/p>\n<p>The share of the dirtiest fossil fuel in India\u2019s power mix fell for the second year in a row in 2020, according to the report released on Tuesday, due to an economic slowdown in 2019 followed by a pandemic-induced recession. There\u2019s a chance coal power never has to breach 2018 levels again if the Indian government meets its renewable energy goals, Ember senior analyst Aditya Lolla wrote. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As India recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic shock, the choices it makes for its power sector can make or break its coal-to-clean electricity transition in the next decade,&#8217; he wrote. &#8216;It\u2019s even possible coal will fall this decade, if India wants it to.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s use of coal may have peaked in 2018, according to a new report by according to U.K.-based clean energy group Ember. That\u2019s sooner than many experts have forecast. The share of the dirtiest fossil fuel in India\u2019s power mix fell for the second year in a row in 2020, according to the report released on Tuesday, due to an economic slowdown in 2019 followed by a pandemic-induced recession. There\u2019s a chance coal power never has to breach 2018 levels again if the Indian government meets its renewable energy goals, Ember senior analyst Aditya Lolla wrote. &#8216;As India recovers from [&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":[190,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400777","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=400777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}