PANAJI
Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar on Friday said the State government will come up with a 'Hydrogen Mission Policy' in tune with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for a grey, blue and green hydrogen policy across the nation.
Dhavalikar was speaking at 'Clean, renewable energy' conclave organised by the Goa council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in the capital city where earlier Chief Minister Pramod Sawant also made the ambitious claim that the State has set a target of raising green energy production to 250 mega watts level in the next two years.
Meanwhile, Dhavalikar also made a claim at the conference that generating hydro and solar power is also on the government's agenda and abandoned mining pits in the State will be put to use.
“Abandoned mining pits will be used to generate hydropower and solar power," Dhavalikar told the audience at the conference which was a mix of power sector technocrats, corporate honchos and CII functionaries.
"Pits which are 120 meters deep and filled with water will be used to produce hydropower with new technology," Dhavalikar said, an idea he had earlier spoken of in the Goa legislative assembly in January.
Dhavalikar also said that the State government had given a thrust and initiated schemes to encourage industry to opt for renewable energy.
Earlier, Sawant told the conference that his government was planning for a 100% renewable energy status across all sectors by 2050.
“After collecting the data and holding numerous consultations with stakeholders the energy action plan will soon be adopted," Sawant said, adding that plans for sectors like electricity, transport, agriculture, fisheries and industries are already complete.
He claimed that the plan has a job creation potential of around 15,000 jobs and added that as many as 500 jobs can be created annually in the solar and wind energy sectors alone.
The government is committed to generating 150 MW of green energy in the next two years and will be setting up 100 MW solar power plants throughout Goa, he said.
The CII Goa Conference on the theme of Clean Renewable Energy 2023 focuses on transforming business of industry, hospitality and real estate for sustainability.
The second edition of the conference aims to promote implementation and usage of clean and green energy, while providing the industry with an opportunity to have fruitful discussions about latest technologies, engineering design methods, and best practices that address industrial challenges in the use of renewable energy.
