PANJIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday launched the ‘Goa Clean Energy Roadmap’ during the concluding session of the Energy Transitions Ministers Meeting of G-20 at Taj Resort and Convention Centre, Dona Paula.
The Clean Energy Roadmap is a State- level blueprint to decarbonise all sectors of Goa by 2050. G20 members represent around 85 per cent of the global GDP, over 75 per cent of the global trade and about two-thirds of the world population.
Goa along with all other States is geared towards achieving Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s five-fold strategy achieving India’s Net Zero commitment by 2070 of achieving 500GW of non-fossil energy capacity by 2030 and fulfilling 50 per cent energy requirements via RE sources by 2030.
The Clean Energy Roadmap is an extensive, inter-sectoral and data driven analysis to develop cost-optimised sectoral strategies and actionable plans, which help in identifying high potential areas where introduction of appropriate
renewable energy technologies, energy and resource efficient practices along with appropriate policy and regulatory measures that can help Goa in yielding maximum environmental, economic and social return. RE and EE interventions to decarbonise will soon be introduced and implemented in sectors such as Tourism, Transport, Industry, Health, Agriculture, Fisheries as well as cooking. Awareness drives and skilling programmes for respective stakeholder sectors will also be made to ensure faster adoption of cleaner technologies and sustainable practices.
Besides energy supply sector, Goa is also committed to transform Goa’s tourism sector into Green Tourism sector. By following the strategic roadmap, Goa will then probably be the first Green Tourist hotspot in Global Map.
The State government invited the G-20 members to be a part in developing and co-owning the Clean Energy Roadmap Plan and be a long term strategic partner to transform Goa into 100 per cent RE by 2050. The State government also will ensure that 100 per cent Renewable Energy based electricity supply will be given to all demand sectors.
