{"id":451942,"date":"2021-11-26T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T03:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=451942"},"modified":"2021-11-26T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T03:40:30","slug":"green-electricity-can-become-the-cheapest-energy-by-2050-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/green-electricity-can-become-the-cheapest-energy-by-2050-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Electricity can become the cheapest energy by 2050, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cost-slashing innovations are underway in the electric power sector and could give electricity the lead over fossil-based combustion fuels in the world&#8217;s energy supply by mid-century, according to Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) <\/p>\n<p>When combined with a global carbon price, these developments can catalyse emission reductions to reach the Paris climate targets, while reducing the need for controversial negative emissions, a new study finds. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, 80 per cent of all energy demands for industry, mobility or heating buildings is met by burning &#8211; mostly fossil &#8211; fuels directly, and only 20 per cent by electricity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost-slashing innovations are underway in the electric power sector and could give electricity the lead over fossil-based combustion fuels in the world&#8217;s energy supply by mid-century, according to Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) When combined with a global carbon price, these developments can catalyse emission reductions to reach the Paris climate targets, while reducing the need for controversial negative emissions, a new study finds. &#8220;Today, 80 per cent of all energy demands for industry, mobility or heating buildings is met by burning &#8211; mostly fossil &#8211; fuels directly, and only 20 per cent by electricity.<\/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-451942","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\/451942","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=451942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}