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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Oct, 2020
As part of reforms oriented towards providing cleaner auto fuels in the
country, government will soon launch a pilot on hydrogen CNG or HCNG
soon, a senior government official said on Saturday.
Petroleum
secretary Tarun Kapoor said that a pilot project on HCNG is being
undertaken in Delhi soon that will improve efficiency and reduce
emissions drastically.
Speaking the Inaugural Session of
'Alternative Fuel Technology for Vehicles: A Cure-all for Sustainable
Mobility' organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in
association with CSIDC, Government of Chhattisgarh, Kapoor said.
India
is becoming a leader in CNG, there has been a significant transition
with the need to move towards cleaner fuels like CNG, ethanol,
biodiesel, and electric vehicles.
He said that we need to ensure
that CNG is available and affordable ensuring that vehicles are modelled
to incorporate CNG smoothly.
Discussing city gas distribution,
he shared that there is significant work happening especially in the
infrastructure so that CNG is seamlessly available. "We will be doing a
pilot project in Delhi on HCNG that will improve efficiency and reduce
emissions drastically," the secretary said.
Talking about
ethanol, he mentioned that by the next year, there would be a jump in
the ethanol production and India is planning to introduce E12 and E15
shortly.
Gradually, we will have blended petrol all over the
country and moving to a higher percentage. We have to make pure ethanol
available that is happening in several countries and, some countries
also have multi-fuel vehicles like Brazil. There is a pilot project
which will be implemented for pure ethanol that will take place in Pune
shortly, he said.
Kapoor deliberated about the need to make
biodiesel affordable and freely available. On the sector of compressed
biogas, he discussed that it's an area of focus as it's important for
the agriculture sector and, there is a huge source available in the
country. He also discussed the projects undertaken by the government for
setting up biogas plants that will help in producing a large quantity
of biogas that will also flow in the city gas distribution network
making it available along with CNG.
On Electric Vehicles, the oil
marketing companies are available to facilitate and, we are looking
forward to better swapping coming to the petrol station, retail outlets,
putting up electric charging. We look forward to work closely with the
industry so that we can go forward, said Kapoor.
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