Itanagar: Oil India Limited chairman and managing director Ranjith Rath has proposed tapping into the geothermal energy potential of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam by reviving deep bore wells originally drilled for hydrocarbon exploration in the two states.
This suggestion was made during a meeting held at the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
The meeting, held in response to directives from NITI Aayog, aimed to establish a “Consortium of Geothermal Energy” to harness 10 MW of geothermal energy by 2030.
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