India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) has announced plans to map and then utilise potential geothermal energy sources around the country.

Speaking to media earlier in the week, Sushma Rawat, the director of exploration services at ONGC, said that while plans are still in their early stages, actual execution could begin early next year.

“In terms of geothermal energy, we have worked in Ladakh, but that is just a starter. We are coming up with a geothermal map for (the) entire India,” Rawat said referring to previous drilling operations in the mountainous north-west of the country.

Ladakh has been pinpointed as the most one of the region’s most potentially resource-rich areas in terms of geothermal energy. Drilling operations began in the mountains of Ladakh last August, and are ongoing, according to sources.

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