The Aluminium major BAlCO’s plant 2 has received National Award for Excellence in Energy Management 2013 for Energy Efficient Unit in general category organized by CII recently in Hyderabad, a statement of the plant informed on Thursday.
Mehfooz Ahmed, AGM, CPP-1 and Sujit Mathew, Manager, Pot room, received the award from Ajay Mathur, Head, Bureau of Energy Efficiency. Dr. Naushad Forbes, Chairman, Energy Efficiency Council and l.S. Ganapati, Chairman, National Award for Excellence in Energy Management-2013 were present in the function.The award focuses on the trend of reduction in specific energy consumption, its proximity towards global best in Specific energy consumption, innovation in identifying and implementing energy saving projects, saving achieved, methodology adopted during the implementation, proven efforts taken by the company to sustain the savings.
The best 33 amongst 242 companies applied for Energy Award program were selected for the award.The statement claimed that Balco has been implemented several energy saving projects under the guiadance of Deepak Prasad, Head, Plant-2. The Endeavour of Prasad and his team has increased the productivity and made the plant energy efficient.Ramesh Nair, CEO, Balco has congratulated Prasad and his team for the achievement. Energy and water are two areas we need to focus more severely and attain world benchmarks in efficiency. More than the cost it is a statement of our commitment to the nature, said Nair.