Chennai: Stating that Tamilnadu was in the first place among the States in respect of renewable energy, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has said the State has an installed capacity of 15,876 MW of which 2,322 MW was from Hydel, 8,523 from wind mill, 4,054 from Solar, 266 MW from plant waste amd 711 MW from Joint power projects.
He said the total fuel recycling installed capacity in the State was 1,013 MW of which 516 MW belonged to the State government and the remaining 497 MW was owned by private players.
He said with a view to meet the growing power needs of Chennai city, the government has planned to set up two joint power recycling projects in and around the city.
Palaniswami inaugurated the IOC’s Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) Plant at Namakkal in the presence of the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan.
The Chief Minister inaugurated the plant, set up at a cost of Rs 25 crore, through video-conferencing from the State Secretariat.
Speaking on the occasion, Palaniswami said the Public Sector Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Limited has established this CBG production facility at Namakkal.
Thanking Dharmendra Pradhan for leading this initiative, he wished that more such steps will be undertaken in Tamilnadu and promised his government’s full support to the Centre for such endeavours for clean energy.