{"id":360224,"date":"2026-03-23T02:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360224\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:13:27","slug":"indias-gas-crunch-from-iran-war-lays-bare-electrification-bottlenecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360224\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s gas crunch from Iran war lays bare electrification bottlenecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran tensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Fossil fuel reliance weighs on industry despite renewables build-out<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260319 India Electricity Pylon\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Electricity&#8217;s share of final energy demand in India is only around 20%. \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BENGALURU &#8212; India, among Asia&#8217;s most import-dependent energy markets, has pitched its rapid expansion of renewable power as key to its energy security. Yet the Iran war is exposing how industries remain locked into fossil fuels, with high costs and technical barriers slowing a shift to electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran tensions Fossil fuel reliance weighs on industry despite renewables build-out Electricity&#8217;s share of final energy demand in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[163018,163019,152907,37214,246,12614,61,71754,11829,60,163017,82,2286],"class_list":["post-360224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-bare","tag-bottlenecks","tag-crunch","tag-electrification","tag-environment","tag-gas","tag-ie","tag-indias","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-lays","tag-science","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}