Vasco: Stating that the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) will be ready to supply BS-VI fuel to Goa by March 2020, Murali Srinivasan, Executive Director IOCL for Goa and Maharashtra said liquid fuels will continue to remain corporation’s key products and added that at the same time, the corporation will focus on creating supply points for alternate clean fuel (bio-fuel).
At a press conference, Srinivasan said time has come that oil companies need to think on using clean, renewable sources of energy.
The executive director said, “In one of the States, bio-CNG is being produced on a large scale from the crop (paddy waste) and food residue and this can be a game changer if we promote and use such technology wherein there won’t be garbage-related pollution and waste can be used as a fuel with no emissions.”
IOCL officials P C Katkar, Siddharth Swaroop, Parshuram Hasalkar, Anjali Bhave and Chanchal K Prasad, were present.
Meanwhile in a press release, the IOCL mentioned that to harness the potential of solar energy in Goa, the corporation has solarised its two retail outlets and efforts are made to solarise eight more such outlets in Goa by June 2020.
IOCL is in the process to set up two CNG stations at Colvale and Dhargalim and plans to commission three such stations in Panjim, Zuarinagar and Cortalim.
IOCL has already conducted a feasibility study of EV charging stations at its existing retail outlets and has identified ten retail outlets for EV charging stations in Goa which are likely to start by June 2020, stated that press release.
