{"id":620601,"date":"2023-12-02T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T04:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=620601"},"modified":"2023-12-02T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T08:18:36","slug":"coal-will-remain-an-important-part-of-indias-energy-needs-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-will-remain-an-important-part-of-indias-energy-needs-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal will remain an important part of India&#8217;s energy needs: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coal will remain India&#8217;s main source of energy for years to come, a top government official said on Thursday, underscoring its commitment to the use of the fossil fuel as the U.N.&#8217;s COP28 climate summit opens in Dubai. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coal is, and would, remain an important part of India&#8217;s energy needs,&#8221; Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra told reporters ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s trip to Dubai. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that India, which depends on coal for 73% of its energy needs, is scrambling to add 17 gigawatts of coal-based power generation capacity at its fastest pace in recent years to meet a record increase in power demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal will remain India&#8217;s main source of energy for years to come, a top government official said on Thursday, underscoring its commitment to the use of the fossil fuel as the U.N.&#8217;s COP28 climate summit opens in Dubai. &#8220;Coal is, and would, remain an important part of India&#8217;s energy needs,&#8221; Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra told reporters ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s trip to Dubai. Reuters reported that India, which depends on coal for 73% of its energy needs, is scrambling to add 17 gigawatts of coal-based power generation capacity at its fastest pace in recent years to meet [&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-620601","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\/620601","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=620601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}