{"id":623368,"date":"2023-12-20T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=623368"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:12:15","slug":"india-cannot-do-away-with-energy-security-to-meet-climate-goals-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-cannot-do-away-with-energy-security-to-meet-climate-goals-official\/","title":{"rendered":"India cannot do away with energy security to meet climate goals: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India cannot do away with energy security only because it has to meet climate goals, a senior official said on Tuesday. The statement assumes significance due to India&#8217;s focus on energy transition with ambitious targets of 500 GW of renewable energy by 2030 and net-zero by 2070.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s power demand touched an all-time high of 243.27 GW in September this year. India has installed power generation capacity of about 426 GW, including over 213 GW coal and lignite based.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot do away with energy security, only because we have to meet the climatic goal,&#8221; Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Power, Ashish Upadhyay, said while addressing the inaugural CII South Asia Power Summit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India cannot do away with energy security only because it has to meet climate goals, a senior official said on Tuesday. The statement assumes significance due to India&#8217;s focus on energy transition with ambitious targets of 500 GW of renewable energy by 2030 and net-zero by 2070. India&#8217;s power demand touched an all-time high of 243.27 GW in September this year. India has installed power generation capacity of about 426 GW, including over 213 GW coal and lignite based. &#8220;We cannot do away with energy security, only because we have to meet the climatic goal,&#8221; Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623368","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=623368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}