{"id":447523,"date":"2021-11-05T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447523"},"modified":"2021-11-05T12:02:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:32:46","slug":"modis-cop26-goals-could-mean-a-massive-energy-overhaul-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/modis-cop26-goals-could-mean-a-massive-energy-overhaul-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s COP26 goals could mean a massive energy overhaul in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised many at the Glasgow climate summit by setting a 2070 net-zero goal for the country, but it\u2019s the ambitious targets that come before that date that may determine the nation\u2019s green success.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Modi offered five climate targets India would pursue, four of them set for the end of the decade. Here\u2019s a look at how they measure up to the country\u2019s 2015 goals: <\/p>\n<p>Half Clean <\/p>\n<p>The most ambitious of the five targets is the country\u2019s aim to draw half of its energy requirement from renewable sources by 2030. Reaching that figure would mean a large enough expansion to replace coal for electricity, as well as petroleum fuels used in transport or cooking with renewable power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised many at the Glasgow climate summit by setting a 2070 net-zero goal for the country, but it\u2019s the ambitious targets that come before that date that may determine the nation\u2019s green success. In his speech, Modi offered five climate targets India would pursue, four of them set for the end of the decade. Here\u2019s a look at how they measure up to the country\u2019s 2015 goals: Half Clean The most ambitious of the five targets is the country\u2019s aim to draw half of its energy requirement from renewable sources by 2030. Reaching that figure [&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-447523","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\/447523","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=447523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}