{"id":566164,"date":"2023-03-28T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=566164"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:12:32","slug":"gas-makes-for-a-solid-climate-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gas-makes-for-a-solid-climate-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas, makes for a solid climate future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a growing population of 1.3 billion and rapid urbanisation, India is the third-largest consumer of energy. Currently, 80% of the India\u2019s energy needs are met by coal, oil and solid biomass. Coal largely dominates and accounts for 56% of the total energy mix, maintaining its strong position in power generation and being a fuel of choice for many industries such as iron and steel. Renewables and matural gas take a small share but have started to gain ground. At the same time, India is the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with coal contributing 66% of its CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a growing population of 1.3 billion and rapid urbanisation, India is the third-largest consumer of energy. Currently, 80% of the India\u2019s energy needs are met by coal, oil and solid biomass. Coal largely dominates and accounts for 56% of the total energy mix, maintaining its strong position in power generation and being a fuel of choice for many industries such as iron and steel. Renewables and matural gas take a small share but have started to gain ground. At the same time, India is the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with coal contributing 66% of its CO2 emissions.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566164","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=566164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}