{"id":473825,"date":"2022-03-07T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T05:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=473825"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T07:00:35","slug":"will-war-fast-track-the-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-war-fast-track-the-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Will war fast-track the energy transition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden push to reduce Europe&#8217;s dependence on Russian gas and oil could trigger a paradigm shift to clean energy sources that might be quickly scaled up.<\/p>\n<p>Europe has been pushing gas and nuclear as an essential part of the energy transition from carbon-heavy fossil fuels like oil and coal. But since Ukraine was invaded, Europe&#8217;s dependence on Russian gas has inspired a sudden push for energy independence, especially via renewables. <\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Finance Minister Christian Lindner, of the pro-business FDP, now calls renewables &#8220;freedom energies,&#8221; while Chancellor Olaf Scholz labels them &#8220;crucial for our security.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden push to reduce Europe&#8217;s dependence on Russian gas and oil could trigger a paradigm shift to clean energy sources that might be quickly scaled up. Europe has been pushing gas and nuclear as an essential part of the energy transition from carbon-heavy fossil fuels like oil and coal. But since Ukraine was invaded, Europe&#8217;s dependence on Russian gas has inspired a sudden push for energy independence, especially via renewables. Germany&#8217;s Finance Minister Christian Lindner, of the pro-business FDP, now calls renewables &#8220;freedom energies,&#8221; while Chancellor Olaf Scholz labels them &#8220;crucial for our security.&#8221;<\/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":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473825","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=473825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}