NEW DELHI: ITC Ltd has commissioned its first offsite photo voltaic plant in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, at an funding of ₹76 crore, the corporate mentioned in a press release. The 14.9 MW photo voltaic plant will assist scale back CO2 emissions over the course of its lifetime.
This new undertaking is consistent with ITC chairman Sanjiv Puri’s ‘Sustainability 2.0’ Imaginative and prescient, below which the conglomerate plans to fulfill 100% of grid electrical energy necessities from renewable sources by 2030.
ITC’s renewable portfolio contains 138 MW of wind energy vegetation and 14 MW of photo voltaic vegetation with 53MW of extra photo voltaic capability below execution.
At present, tasks are additionally underway in different sources of renewable power corresponding to biomass boilers. ITC has up to now invested ₹1,000 crore in renewable power belongings. Renewable power powers the corporate’s 20 factories, 9 motels, and 6 workplace buildings throughout Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Haryana, West Bengal, and Punjab, the corporate mentioned.
The Dindigul photo voltaic plant is unfold over 59 acre. The unit will generate over twenty-two million items of renewable power yearly for ITC’s motels, meals manufacturing vegetation, paper manufacturing facility, and printing and packaging factories in Tamil Nadu.
“At ITC, we now have relentlessly pursued a mission for environmental stewardship by a gamut of large-scale endeavours that comprehensively tackle the specter of local weather change. Our large-scale investments in renewable power belongings are an integral a part of our low carbon technique aimed toward making a significant contribution to a web zero financial system,” Sanjiv Rangrass, group head, ITC Life Sciences & Know-how, Central Tasks, EHS & High quality Assurance, ITC Ltd., mentioned.
In addition to investments in new renewable power belongings, as a part of its sustainability agenda, ITC plans to attain 50% discount in particular emissions and 30% discount in particular power consumption by 2030 over a 2014-15 baseline.
Supply: Live Mint