IOC’s green fuel unit and stations at Namakkal go on stream.

A number of compressed bio-gas (CBG) plants, entailing a total investment of about ₹450 crore, will be set up in Tamil Nadu for the supply of green fuel in the State. The first CBG plant has been established at Namakkal by IOT, a joint venture of Indian Oil Corporation with Oiltanking GmbH of Germany.

The unit along with five CBG stations for automobiles were remotely inaugurated on Tuesday jointly by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan.

The Namakkal plant will process 290 tonnes per day of feedstock to produce 15 tonnes per day of CBG, which shall be sold for use in vehicles from five petrol pumps in Namakkal and & Salem, besides two industrial units, according to a statement.

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