Anand Sharma to Inaugurate 7th ECO-Products International Fair and Conference Tomorrow

Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, will be inaugurating the 7th Eco-Products International Fair tomorrow (EPIF 2011) here tomorrow. The 3-day (10-12 February) EPIF 2011 is being jointly organized by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India; Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) –Tokyo; National Productivity Council (NPC) – India and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). This edition of EPIF revolves around the theme – “Green Productivity for Sustainable Energy and Environment” with a parallel International Conference on the theme.

Eco- Products International Fair is one of the largest international environment exhibitions in Asia and showcases the most advanced environment friendly technologies, products and services that enhance sustainable productivity and competitiveness. EPIF provide opportunities to explore business collaborations and promote awareness of environment friendly products and services.

Shri R P Singh, Secretary (DIPP); Shri Suresh Prabhu, former Minister of Power; Mr. Yukio Kato, Ministry of Environment, Japan and Mr. Yu Murata, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan will also address on the occasion. Other speakers will include delegates from Green Productivity Advisory Committee, Japan; UNDP; UNIDO; GTZ, Germany along with Indian organizations such as Ministry of New & Renewable Energy; Energy Efficiency Services; TERI and Tata Quality Management Services.

About 250 delegates from Asia Pacific region are attending the Conference which aims to address wide ranging concerns and opportunities relating to green productivity through sustainable energy and environment. The Conference will have over 20 presentations during five plenary themes covering sustainable energy and environment, green supply chain, eco-products and green procurement, climate change and low carbon growth and eco-finance and eco-business.

Source: Print Release

Perform, achieve and trade the way to save industrial energy

KOLKATA, 4 FEB: The Union ministry of power would be launching a scheme ~ Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) ~ to enhance cost effectiveness in improving industrial energy efficiency under the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE) from April this year.

The scheme is likely to save 9.78 metric ton oil equivalent (mte), which amounts to an avoided capacity of 5,623 MW of power over a period of three years.

The scheme was announced today during an interactive session for the eastern region organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) here. 

Through the market-based mechanism, the Centre would notify energy intensive industries as designated consumers and such industries would be provided incentives to achieve better energy efficiency, beyond the specific energy consumption (SEC) stipulated for each designated consumer.

The first cycle of PAT which is going to be started from April 2011 aims to cover eight industrial sectors ~ thermal power plants, fertilisers, cement, pulp and paper, textiles, chlor-alkali, iron and steel and aluminum ~ that would be given a target of three years to achieve better energy efficiency.

“The national target has been set at 10 mote at the end of the first PAT cycle. The 563 notified industries consume 231 mote energy that is 60 per cent of the total energy consumption of the country,” said Mr Kapil Mohan, deputy director general, Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). The thermal power plants consume the maximum with 160.3 mote followed by integrated steel that consume energy to the tune of 26.98 mote.

It sets in place a monitoring and verification mechanism for the SECs and processes for issuing and trading in Energy Saving Certificates and its trading across sectors and their synergy with renewable energy certificates. The energy saving certificates would be issued to designated consumers that achieve the target reduction from the baseline SEC during the stipulated period. The number of certificates would depend on the quantum of energy saved during each target year. The value of the certificates would be based on the crude oil price or will be decided by the trading mechanism.

Source: Perform, achieve and trade the way to save industrial energy