{"id":406566,"date":"2021-03-23T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T05:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406566"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T06:38:38","slug":"renewable-electricity-needs-to-grow-55-fold-to-achieve-zero-emission-in-india-by-2050-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/renewable-electricity-needs-to-grow-55-fold-to-achieve-zero-emission-in-india-by-2050-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable electricity needs to grow 55-fold to achieve zero-emission in India by 2050: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renewables in electricity must increase 55-fold for India to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a report by Council on Energy, Environment and Wate (CEEW).    <\/p>\n<p>India will need to generate at least 83 per cent of its electricity from (non-hydro power) renewable energy sources by 2050 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>This would mean a massive 55-fold increase in the use of non-hydro renewables in electricity generation within the coming three decades, from only 160 Terawatt-hour (TWh) (10 per cent) in 2019, CEEW said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Further, to achieve net-zero by 2050 the share of electricity in India&#8217;s industrial energy use must rise three-fold, from 20.3 per cent in 2018 to 70 per cent in 2050, the study &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewables in electricity must increase 55-fold for India to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a report by Council on Energy, Environment and Wate (CEEW). India will need to generate at least 83 per cent of its electricity from (non-hydro power) renewable energy sources by 2050 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, according to the study. This would mean a massive 55-fold increase in the use of non-hydro renewables in electricity generation within the coming three decades, from only 160 Terawatt-hour (TWh) (10 per cent) in 2019, CEEW said in a statement. Further, to achieve net-zero by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,247,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406566","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}