India Energy Week 2024: Minister Puri highlights tech innovations, biofuel story

The India Energy Week 2024 in Goa ends at present, and talking to the media yesterday, Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs, counseled the tech improvements showcased on the four-day occasion.

Interacting with the media on the sidelines of IEW 2024, the minister highlighted among the improvements, equivalent to ‘Tamper-Proof’ cooking gasoline cylinder with QR code and diesel engine manufactured for the US market.

About India’s developments within the power sector, Puri mentioned, “The biofuel story resonates very strongly within the reveals showcased right here. One space I used to be very impressed with is making sustainable aviation gas from cooking oil and vegetable oils.”

He additionally mentioned that India had achieved 12 per cent ethanol mixing with petrol 5 months forward of the estimated goal, and this had led the federal government to revise the goal of 20 per cent ethanol mixing by 5 years to 2025.

“The subsequent era [of fuel] shall be electrical and ethanol,” he mentioned.

Separately, Puri introduced that Goa had turn into a kerosene-free state. “I need to congratulate the federal government of Goa that they’ve mukti (freedom) from kerosene guidelines,” he mentioned.

Quoting the International Energy Agency report released at IEW 2024, Puri mentioned that the report findings that India would overtake China “to imagine the place of the world’s largest supply of oil demand development is essential”.