Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL), India’s second largest oil marketing company, targets to build 2 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2025 and 10 GW by 2035, said G. Krishnakumar, Chairman & Managing Director, BPCL, recently.
Towards achieving it RE objective, BPCL is evaluating various projects in this space. It has invested around INR 1,000 crore to establish two 50 MW captive wind power plants in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, for consumption by its refineries in Mumbai and Bina. The company is also investing around INR 300 crore in 72 MWp of solar project in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.
BPCL is also executing green hydrogen projects aligned with the National Green Hydrogen Mission. These projects include a 5 MW electrolyser plant at Bina Refinery and a Green Hydrogen refuelling station with an indigenously developed electrolyser at Kochi. BPCL has developed an alkaline electrolyzer in collaboration with India’s Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
In electric mobility domain, the company has already installed over 3,100 charging stations and plans to expand to 7,000 stations in the near future.
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