{"id":447505,"date":"2021-11-05T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447505"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:26:31","slug":"greening-deserts-india-powers-renewable-ambitions-with-solar-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/greening-deserts-india-powers-renewable-ambitions-with-solar-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Greening deserts: India powers renewable ambitions with solar push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As camels munch on the fringes of Thar desert, an oasis of blue solar panels stretches further than the eye can see at Bhadla Park &#8212; a cornerstone of India&#8217;s bid to become a clean energy powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, coal powers 70 percent of the nation&#8217;s electricity generation, but Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged that by 2030, India will produce more energy through solar and other renewables than its entire grid now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, India will increase its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 gigawatts&#8230; Second, by 2030, 50 percent of our energy requirements will come from renewable resources,&#8221; Modi told the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As camels munch on the fringes of Thar desert, an oasis of blue solar panels stretches further than the eye can see at Bhadla Park &#8212; a cornerstone of India&#8217;s bid to become a clean energy powerhouse. Currently, coal powers 70 percent of the nation&#8217;s electricity generation, but Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged that by 2030, India will produce more energy through solar and other renewables than its entire grid now. &#8220;First, India will increase its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 gigawatts&#8230; Second, by 2030, 50 percent of our energy requirements will come from renewable resources,&#8221; Modi told [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447505","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=447505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}