{"id":447017,"date":"2021-11-02T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447017"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:57:08","slug":"india-must-clean-up-coal-reliant-power-sector-to-reach-net-zero-emission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-must-clean-up-coal-reliant-power-sector-to-reach-net-zero-emission\/","title":{"rendered":"India must clean up coal-reliant power sector to reach net-zero emission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order for India to reach its surprising target of having net-zero emissions by 2070, it will have to clean up the most coal-reliant of the world\u2019s biggest power sectors.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70% of India\u2019s electricity came from coal power plants last year, according to BloombergNEF data. The past few weeks have highlighted just how reliant the country is on the most-polluting fossil fuel, as a shortage of it has led to curbs on power supply to some energy-hungry industries. <\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delighted delegates at the COP26 climate summit with his announcement that the third-biggest emitter would reach net-zero by 2070, and he raised India\u2019s 2030 target for low-emission energy capacity to 500 gigawatts from 450 previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order for India to reach its surprising target of having net-zero emissions by 2070, it will have to clean up the most coal-reliant of the world\u2019s biggest power sectors. More than 70% of India\u2019s electricity came from coal power plants last year, according to BloombergNEF data. The past few weeks have highlighted just how reliant the country is on the most-polluting fossil fuel, as a shortage of it has led to curbs on power supply to some energy-hungry industries. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delighted delegates at the COP26 climate summit with his announcement that the third-biggest emitter would [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447017","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=447017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}