{"id":405809,"date":"2021-03-19T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T05:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405809"},"modified":"2021-03-19T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T05:32:34","slug":"india-facing-high-fossil-fuel-consumption-challenge-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-facing-high-fossil-fuel-consumption-challenge-official\/","title":{"rendered":"India facing high fossil fuel consumption challenge: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is facing a &#8220;challenge of high fossil fuel consumption&#8221;, a senior official said on Thursday, stressing the need for adopting non-polluting electric vehicles to contribute to energy goals. Climate change is a growing challenge the world over and there is increasing momentum for the transition towards a low carbon economy, Vivek Kumar Dewangan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Power said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India is facing a challenge of high fossil fuel consumption reinforcing the importance of alternative clean energy in the future. &#8220;The transportation sector, which contributes in a large measure to the emission, has been identified as an area which needs immediate intervention to see that desirable results,&#8221; he said while addressing the India Electric Vehicle Technologies Summit, organised by industry body PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is facing a &#8220;challenge of high fossil fuel consumption&#8221;, a senior official said on Thursday, stressing the need for adopting non-polluting electric vehicles to contribute to energy goals. Climate change is a growing challenge the world over and there is increasing momentum for the transition towards a low carbon economy, Vivek Kumar Dewangan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Power said. &#8220;India is facing a challenge of high fossil fuel consumption reinforcing the importance of alternative clean energy in the future. &#8220;The transportation sector, which contributes in a large measure to the emission, has been identified as an area which needs [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405809","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=405809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}