VASCO
Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar on Thursday said that Goa Government was in the process of producing a large amount of green energy and promoting it in different sectors of Goa through solar energy.
Dhavalikar was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the Goas first solar powered chiller system on fishing trawler " Vailankanni Nakshatra " at Vasco in the presence of Fisheries Minister Nilkanth Halarnkar, Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar, Mormugao MLA Sankalp Amonkar and AGFBOA President Jose Philip D'Souza and others.
" We as the new government have taken a lot of new and pending works and we are now trying to promote solar energy. We have now decided to bring solar power into the fishing business and this will get a good benefit for the fishermen and help save on fuel prices. We will have further modifications on this solar energy system used on fishing boats and this is the first trawler in Goa where we have launched a solar powered chiller system . We will have to manufacture huge quantities of solar power and the PM Narendra Modi has told us that till 2030, that we will have to produce more than 50 per cent of existing power in India to green energy. We are all striving to produce and promote green energy and we are also in discussion with the union power ministry to offer subsidies to the fisheries department for promoting solar energy, " said Dhavalikar.
Fisheries minister Nilkanth Halarnkar said that the solar power chiller was tried on a experimental basis to explore solar power in the fisheries area.
" We are hoping that it will be successful and it will help in saving fuel costs that is involved in the chiller of the fishing boat. Solar energy is also helping reduce pollution and we will also provide subsidy for solar powered chillers to the fish boat owners, " said Halarnkar.
Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar said that solar panels have been installed on the trawler as a bid to move solar energy into the fishing fraternity to save other rising costs of the fuel.
Mormugao MLA Sankalp Amonkar said that it was for the first time that power and fisheries ministry have made a joint effort to promote solar energy on a fishing trawler at Vasco.
