{"id":256,"date":"2022-08-05T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/?p=256"},"modified":"2022-08-20T21:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T21:19:52","slug":"how-can-we-balance-meeting-esg-goals-with-energy-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"How can we balance meeting ESG Goals with Energy Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-256\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-256-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-256-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-256-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s non-fossil fuel energy capacity, including hydel and nuclear stands at close to 170 GW, @ around 41% of total electricity capacity of 403 GW. But, in India, as elsewhere in the world, renewables could not plug the energy deficit caused by reduced supplies of coal and gas. India fell back on fossil fuel and produced 778 Million Tonnes of coal in 2021-22, compared to 716\u00a0MT in the previous year.\u00a0 This is because thermal power is 75% of power generated in India. Hence, though we have to meet ESG coals, can we compromise our Energy Security?\u00a0 We do not think we can. \u00a0Given the constraints, we also need to work on our renewable capacity. In June 2022, the solar capacity was at 57,705 MW against a target of 1, 00,000 MW. Similarly, Wind Power capacity was 40,788 MW against the target of 60,000 MW. Hence, we need to strike a balanced path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please share your views on the above with us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s non-fossil fuel energy capacity, including hydel and nuclear stands at close to 170 GW, @ around 41% of total&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,45,67],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-climatechange","tag-iccblogs","tag-sustainability"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.indianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}