RINL holds meeting on energy efficiency for steel, other industries

Visakhapatnam RINL organised a brainstorming meeting on "Technology needs assessment energy efficiency with focus on steel and other industries" on Saturday in collaboration with Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC). The meet was organised to deliberate decarbonisation pathways and harnessing renewable energy to meet the objective of harnessing 500 GW of renewable energy by 2030 and India's achieving "Net Zero Emissions" by 2070.

Atul Bhatt, CMD, RINL, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant inaugurated the meet.

Addressing the participants, Bhatt stressed the need for sustainable way in steel making and other industries. He informed that MoS (Ministry of Steel) made road map for steel industry and expects steel industry to achieve carbon neutrality as per vision-2047.

Bhatt exhorted the participants to brainstorm on various issues to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and bring out feasible solution to reduce CO2 emissions.

Dr. Gautam Goswami , Scientist G/Advisor and Head "Foresight & Vision" Division, TIFAC highlighting the objective of the workshop, said that TIFAC is preparing the decarbonisation pathways in industries.