{"id":600259,"date":"2023-08-30T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=600259"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:41:43","slug":"coal-transition-wont-lead-to-job-losses-if-system-aptly-executed-isa-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-transition-wont-lead-to-job-losses-if-system-aptly-executed-isa-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal transition won&#8217;t lead to job losses if system aptly executed: ISA DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India won&#8217;t experience any job losses in coal-dependent regions as it transitions towards renewable energy, provided the country designs its systems correctly, says Ajay Mathur, Director-General of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with PTI, Mathur also said energy security remains a driving force, especially in view of the Russia-Ukraine war impacting traditional energy sources. <\/p>\n<p>While India doesn&#8217;t intend to fully eliminate coal, the sole dependable energy source in the nation, there is a target to diminish coal&#8217;s contribution from the existing 50 per cent in the energy mix to around 30 per cent and have 500 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India won&#8217;t experience any job losses in coal-dependent regions as it transitions towards renewable energy, provided the country designs its systems correctly, says Ajay Mathur, Director-General of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). In an interview with PTI, Mathur also said energy security remains a driving force, especially in view of the Russia-Ukraine war impacting traditional energy sources. While India doesn&#8217;t intend to fully eliminate coal, the sole dependable energy source in the nation, there is a target to diminish coal&#8217;s contribution from the existing 50 per cent in the energy mix to around 30 per cent and have 500 gigawatts [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600259","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=600259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}