{"id":453970,"date":"2021-12-03T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=453970"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:35:37","slug":"india-achieves-target-of-40-power-generation-capacity-based-on-non-fossil-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-achieves-target-of-40-power-generation-capacity-based-on-non-fossil-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"India achieves target of 40% power generation capacity based on non-fossil sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has achieved the target of 40 per cent of its installed electricity generation capacity being from non-fossil energy sources, an official statement said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At COP 21, as part of its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), India had committed to achieving 40 per cent of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil energy sources by 2030. &#8220;The country has achieved this target in November 2021 itself,&#8221; the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the country&#8217;s installed renewable energy (RE) capacity stands at 150.05 GW, while its nuclear energy-based installed electricity capacity is 6.78 GW.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total non-fossil fuels based installed energy capacity to 156.83 GW &#8212; which is 40.1 per cent of the total installed electricity capacity of 390.8 GW, in line with the Prime Minister&#8217;s announcement at the recently concluded COP26 climate change conference.<\/p>\n<p>The government is committed to achieving 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030, the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has achieved the target of 40 per cent of its installed electricity generation capacity being from non-fossil energy sources, an official statement said on Thursday. &#8220;At COP 21, as part of its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), India had committed to achieving 40 per cent of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil energy sources by 2030. &#8220;The country has achieved this target in November 2021 itself,&#8221; the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said. According to the statement, the country&#8217;s installed renewable energy (RE) capacity stands at 150.05 GW, while its nuclear energy-based installed electricity capacity is 6.78 GW. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453970","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}