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Indian Oil Corporation to provide green fuel for Amaravati
A national-level delegation from Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) informed Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of their ‘total energy services plan’ for Amaravati which included bio fuel and waste management studies for sustainable development.
Amaravati: A national-level delegation from Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) informed Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of their ‘total energy services plan’ for Amaravati which included bio fuel and waste management studies for sustainable development.
A senior official from IOC told the Chief Minister that they were planning to provide services such as city gas, petrol, LPG, LNG, diesel hydrogen, batteries, compressed air, CNG/ bio CNG in Amaravati in the coming days, during a review meeting on CRDA on Thursday at the Secretariat.
They explained the IOC’s plan to produce ethanol from agricultural waste in Amaravati. The IOC officials informed that they were planning to mainly focus on solar energy for Amaravati. It already started fuel cell powered buses in other cities which can be introduced in Amaravati as well.
The delegation said that they had an LNG plant coming up in Indore and it will be functional next year. They said they can build a pipeline from Indore to Amravati to fuel the energy needs of the city.
The oil major’s officials also shared their vision for Amaravati through an audio visual presentation which included the model fuel stations, the company outlets, the power supply systems and the pipeline models.
Expressing his satisfaction over IOC’s plan, the Chief Minister said he knew Indian Oil’s strengths and believes they would be great partners in his dream of building a great city. Amaravati is an upcoming greenfield city with a great emphasis on green cover, he added.
Naidu said that he wanted to make Amaravati CO2 neutral or negative. “Energy and fuel are the biggest pollutants and you need to work out how to combine your operations with our vision for Amaravati,” he told the IOC officials.
