‘IOCL working towards sustainable aviation fuel, has made rapid strides in EV recharging’

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) is moving rapidly towards sustainable aviation substance (SAF), IOCL Chief General Manager Anita Shrivastava said.

“SAF has been connected our docket for a mates of years. At our Panipet refinery, co-processing has started for a 30 Kilo Tonnes Per Annum [facility], and this is the archetypal Indian installation to person the planetary sustainability certification,” she said astatine a sheet treatment astatine The Hindu Sustainability Summit 2025. The sheet discussion, ‘Energy Transition successful India: The Road Ahead-How Oil and Gas, Renewables and Emerging Fuels Can Co-exist successful the Journey towards Net Zero’, was moderated by Kunal Shankar, Deputy Business Editor, The Hindu.

Ms. Shrivastava said, “Our R&D centres and different departments person brought successful hydrogen successful a large way. We person besides worked connected premier branded fuels which are loading c dioxide emissions. We person made accelerated strides successful electrical conveyance recharging. We person much than 13,500 charging stations.”

Becoming globally competitive

Ravi Ganapathy, Regional Director, ESG Solutions, GovEVA, pointed retired that galore of the companies bash not realise that ESG could marque them globally competitive. If they go proactive and commencement accounting for c emissions, h2o usage, waste, and governance aspects, it would beryllium a large boost, helium added.

Asked however could micro, tiny and mean units bash the same, Mr. Ganapathy said, “If you commencement your ESG accounting aboriginal successful your journey, you volition commencement reaping the benefits aboriginal too. Now, ESG accounting again is straight proportionate to the size of the organisation. So, for the MSMEs, it is not going to outgo overmuch astatine all. And scalability is adjacent little expensive. Which businessman is going to accidental ‘no’ to logical cost-savings?”

Shaivee Malik, Co-Founder and COO of Yotuh Energy, shared her views connected the financing aspects and said, “When we are making immoderate solutions that are battery-based, they bash travel with an archetypal higher cost. Even though the portion economics makes sense, the high capex becomes a barrier. When we are trying to scope it retired to much customers, having overmuch much easiness connected financing volition marque it much adaptable.”

Harish Pazhani, Senior Program Research Specialist, WRI India, said India has surpassed 500 GW of full installed powerfulness capableness and the cardinal notable constituent present is that adjacent to 51% of it comes from non-fossil substance sources which see hydro and nuclear. He underscored the value of semipermanent readying and alternate mechanisms similar vigor efficiency. “Infrastructure similar retention is crucial. Storage volition play a large role. We person to ramp up retention significantly,” helium said.

The summit is presented by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited and co-presented by the Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company. The sustainability spouse is Navin’s. The subordinate spouse is NLC India Limited, and the greenish spouse is Larsen & Toubro. The tv Partner is Puthiya Thalaimurai. While the manufacture spouse is the Confederation of Indian Industry, the cognition spouse is the Sustainable Energy and Environment Council. The integer quality spouse is The Federal.