{"id":497615,"date":"2022-06-10T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497615"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:03:38","slug":"record-14-5-bn-investment-in-indian-renewable-energy-sector-says-ieefa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/record-14-5-bn-investment-in-indian-renewable-energy-sector-says-ieefa\/","title":{"rendered":"Record $14.5 bn investment in Indian renewable energy sector, says IEEFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment in renewable energy in India reached a record $14.5 billion in the last fiscal (2021-22), an increase of 125 per cent compared to FY2020-21 and 72 per cent over the pre-pandemic FY2019-20, a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The surge in renewables investment comes on the back of the revival of electricity demand after the Covid-19 lull and commitments by corporations and financial institutions to net-zero emissions and to exit fossil fuels,&#8221; said the report&#8217;s author Vibhuti Garg, Energy Economist and Lead India, IEEFA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After falling by 24 per cent from $8.4 billion in FY2019-20 to $6.4 billion in FY2020-21 when the pandemic curbed electricity demand, investment in renewable energy has made a strong comeback,&#8221; Garg added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment in renewable energy in India reached a record $14.5 billion in the last fiscal (2021-22), an increase of 125 per cent compared to FY2020-21 and 72 per cent over the pre-pandemic FY2019-20, a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said on Thursday. &#8220;The surge in renewables investment comes on the back of the revival of electricity demand after the Covid-19 lull and commitments by corporations and financial institutions to net-zero emissions and to exit fossil fuels,&#8221; said the report&#8217;s author Vibhuti Garg, Energy Economist and Lead India, IEEFA. &#8220;After falling by 24 per [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497615","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\/497615","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=497615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}