The Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam limited with the support of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (Government of India) New Delhi organised a workshop on energy conservation at hotel Noor-Us-Sabah Palace here on Tuesday.
The workshop was all about Energy Conservation and Energy Saving. Notably, representatives of Textile industry cement industry, pulp and paper industry, thermal power plant and chemical industry from across the State participated in the workshop. In the first session of the workshop, the superintending engineer of the Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam limited, Puneet Gujral welcomed the guests, representatives and other participants in the workshop.
Further the Additional Managing Director of MP Urja Vikas Nigam Tarun Kumar Pithode (IAS) appealed the industry representatives to use unconventional energy at larger scale. While addressing the participants at the workshop, Pithode further informed them about the purpose behind organizing the workshop.
Further, Prashant Chaturvedi, Secretary Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (MPERC) was present as the chief guest during the workshop. While addressing the workshop, Chaturvedi informed that there are as many as 22 corporate units of the State have been marked under this section. He further said that initially such industries have been marked that consume more energy. With such step energy saving and energy consumption would become easy.
Further, Viaks Ranjan the senior scientist of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (Government of India) New Delhi highlighted his over Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT). While addressing the technical session of the workshop, Ranjan informed about the PAT and also informed the participants about the methods of the energy saving under PAT and further informed about the penalty provisions under the Act.
Further, Prashant Chaturvedi, Secretary MPERC informed that tariff has been introduced under Grid Connected Schemes like wind energy, solar power energy and biomass energy.
During the last session, all the participants interacted with each other and discussed the energy saving and conservation solutions. They also discussed about various steps taken by the industries for the same.