{"id":622609,"date":"2023-12-15T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=622609"},"modified":"2023-12-15T10:30:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:00:52","slug":"critical-mineral-imports-rise-as-shift-towards-green-energy-catches-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/critical-mineral-imports-rise-as-shift-towards-green-energy-catches-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical mineral imports rise as shift towards green energy catches pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world moves towards clean energy technologies, the demand for critical minerals is surging. So is their import dependence. Most of these minerals &#8211; which help power electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels &#8211; are imported from China, which is a leader in global production and supplier of these resources. <\/p>\n<p>During the launch of India&#8217;s maiden auction process on November 29, Union Minister of Mines Pralhad Joshi said that the collective value of the 20 blocks was estimated to be $5.4 billion (Rs 45,000) crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world moves towards clean energy technologies, the demand for critical minerals is surging. So is their import dependence. Most of these minerals &#8211; which help power electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels &#8211; are imported from China, which is a leader in global production and supplier of these resources. During the launch of India&#8217;s maiden auction process on November 29, Union Minister of Mines Pralhad Joshi said that the collective value of the 20 blocks was estimated to be $5.4 billion (Rs 45,000) crore.<\/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-622609","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\/622609","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=622609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}