Guwahati: Numaligarh Refinery Ltd on Friday signed a memorandum of agreement with the Institute of Frontier Science and Application and Kaziranga University to carry out research on the assessment of wind energy potential in north-east India.
The agreement was signed by NRL’s senior chief general manager Nikunja Borthakur, Kaziranga University vice-chancellor Dr P K Mishra and IFSA chairman Dr P Goswami, a company release said.
The project aims at developing bankable wind energy assessment over Assam in a riverine environment using mobile lidar observations for three years.
According to the MoA, Kaziranga University, in technical collaboration with IFSA and with funding from NRL, will implement the project.
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NRL director (finance) Sanjay Choudhuri and senior officials from all the organisations were present on the occasion.
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