{"id":225143,"date":"2026-07-17T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/brussels-to-double-electrification-target-in-bid-to-cut-fossil-fuel-consumption\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:49:18","slug":"brussels-to-double-electrification-target-in-bid-to-cut-fossil-fuel-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/brussels-to-double-electrification-target-in-bid-to-cut-fossil-fuel-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels to double electrification target in bid to cut fossil fuel consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of speculation, the European Commission announced a 46 percent electrification target for the bloc&#8217;s economy by 2040. The move is intended to cut dependencies on imported fossil fuels but critics argue that high electricity prices may complicate the EU&#8217;s goals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/17\/brussels-to-double-electrification-target-in-bid-to-cut-fossil-fuel-consumption\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of speculation, the European Commission announced a 46 percent electrification target for the bloc&#8217;s economy by 2040. The move is intended to cut dependencies on imported fossil fuels but critics argue that high electricity prices may complicate the EU&#8217;s goals. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}