{"id":603186,"date":"2023-09-13T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T03:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=603186"},"modified":"2023-09-13T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T04:42:10","slug":"eu-lawmakers-approve-deal-to-raise-renewable-energy-target-to-42-5-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-lawmakers-approve-deal-to-raise-renewable-energy-target-to-42-5-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmakers approve deal to raise renewable energy target to 42.5% by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Union lawmakers endorsed a deal on Tuesday to raise the share of renewables in the bloc&#8217;s energy mix, another step to accelerate its green transition away from fossil fuels. <\/p>\n<p>The bill, adopted by a large majority 470 lawmakers voted in favour, 120 against and 40 abstained foresees an updated renewable energy target of 42.5 per cent of total consumption by 2030, with the aim of reaching 45 per cent. The current goal is 32 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s vote in the European Parliament clears the way for a massive boost towards the energy transition, in a way that is affordable for citizens and reinforces the EU as an industrial bastion, said Green MEP Ville Niinist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union lawmakers endorsed a deal on Tuesday to raise the share of renewables in the bloc&#8217;s energy mix, another step to accelerate its green transition away from fossil fuels. The bill, adopted by a large majority 470 lawmakers voted in favour, 120 against and 40 abstained foresees an updated renewable energy target of 42.5 per cent of total consumption by 2030, with the aim of reaching 45 per cent. The current goal is 32 per cent. Today&#8217;s vote in the European Parliament clears the way for a massive boost towards the energy transition, in a way that is affordable [&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-603186","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\/603186","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=603186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}