{"id":444021,"date":"2021-10-21T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T04:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444021"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T06:11:31","slug":"high-prices-could-slow-indias-transition-to-gas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/high-prices-could-slow-indias-transition-to-gas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"High prices could slow India&#8217;s transition to gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 per cent by 2030 from about 6.2 per cent 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>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 per cent by 2030 from about 6.2 per cent 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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444021","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=444021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}