{"id":443780,"date":"2021-10-21T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443780"},"modified":"2021-10-21T09:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:36:42","slug":"high-prices-could-slow-indias-transition-to-gas-in-its-energy-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/high-prices-could-slow-indias-transition-to-gas-in-its-energy-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"High prices could slow India&#8217;s transition to gas in its energy mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; High prices threaten India&#8217;s goal to boost the use of gas in its energy mix as some industries are looking at switching back to coal and petcoke, a top bureaucrat in the federal oil ministry said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a target to raise the share of natural gas in the country&#8217;s energy mix to 15% by 2030 from about 6.2% now to cut India&#8217;s carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run, India want to raise the use of renewables and biofuels and had turned to the use of natural gas in the &#8220;intermediate period&#8221; despite holding vast reserves of coal, oil secretary Tarun Kapoor said at the India Energy Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; High prices threaten India&#8217;s goal to boost the use of gas in its energy mix as some industries are looking at switching back to coal and petcoke, a top bureaucrat in the federal oil ministry said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a target to raise the share of natural gas in the country&#8217;s energy mix to 15% by 2030 from about 6.2% now to cut India&#8217;s carbon footprint. In the long run, India want to raise the use of renewables and biofuels and had turned to the use of natural gas in the [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443780","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=443780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}