Energy Efficiencies Services Ltd (EESL), a commercial entity promoted by state-run power utilities, is foraying beyond government schemes to look for business. The energy efficiency services company (Esco) has signed an MoU with Tata Motors to help India’s fourth largest passenger carmaker reduce energy and resource consumption across its production facilities in the country.
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The scheme will initially be implemented in Tata Motors’ manufacturing facilities at Pantnagar in Uttarakhand, Lucknow in UP and Pune in Maharashtra. The scheme will be implemented over two years and will subsequently be expanded to the automakers ‘other units.
As part of the scheme, EESL will identify avenues for energy saving in electrical and thermal utilities in the plants. It will identify areas or means to reduce specific water consumption, look at waste heat recovery system and examine the possibility of switching energy source from electricity to gas, conventional to non-conventional.
EESL will also install/distribute LED lights and energy efficient fans, ACs and motors across Tata Motors facilities of TML, including its suppliers, and install smart meters.
A World Bank report, first reported by TOI on November 2, 2016, had pegged India’s energy efficiency market potential at Rs 1.6 lakh crore.
The idea of looking beyond government-run programmes was first outlined by Piyush Goyal during the UK launch of Ujala in May, with the then power minister asking EESL to tap Indian-owned large industries for new business.
EESL is currently running the government’s ‘Ujala’ scheme, globally one of the largest efficiency programmes aiming to replace all 770 million traditional incandescent bulbs and CFL (compact fluorescent lamps) in the country with LED (light emitting diode) bulbs. The programme has already turned India into the world’s LED capital, accounting for 10-12% of the global market of an estimated 4 billion bulbs.
