Energy Management and Efficiency

The buildings sector accounts for 33 per cent of the total energy consumption in India. According to NITI Aayog, energy demand from Indian buildings is estimated to increase by more than 800 per cent in […]

Indian Railways (IR) is a bulk consumer of electricity in the country. In 2017-18, it consumed 18.98 billion units (BUs) of power, of which 16.63 BUs was used for traction load and 2.35 BUs for […]

Industrial energy use accounts for roughly one-third of global energy demand. As per The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), the industrial sector had a share of 58 per cent in the total energy consumption in India, […]

The Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) programme, which was launched in January 2015 by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), gave a major impetus to the lighting industry. The main objective of UJALA […]

According to data by the Central Electricity Authority, the average emission rate of India’s coal-based power plants was close to 0.91 tonnes of CO2 per MWh in 2017-18. In absolute terms, the total emissions by […]

Standards and labelling (S&L) programmes for electric appliances have existed in the developed and some developing countries for some time now. In India, the ownership of assets that consume electricity at the household level has […]

Demand-side management (DSM) is an effective means to create a low-carbon electricity scenario and improve energy efficiency. Various DSM programmes are being implemented to shape the energy consumption pattern of industrial and household consumers, lower […]

Launched in 2008, the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme is a regulatory instrument for reducing specific energy consumption in energy-intensive industries. It comes with an associated market-based mechanism for enhancing the cost effectiveness through […]

Energy efficiency has assumed greater importance in the country following the ratification of the Paris agreement, wherein India committed to reducing the emission intensity of its gross domestic product by 33-35 per cent by 2030 […]

India is expected to add 40 billion m2 of new buildings by 2050. A third of the country’s total energy consumption comes from buildings, according to the 2016 annual energy statistics published by the Ministry of Statistics […]

The lighting industry holds immense potential for reducing energy consumption. According to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), only four industries are on track to meet the global climate goals and one […]

Accounting for almost a quarter of the ordinary working expenses of Indian Railways (IR), energy has emerged as one of its key focus areas. The carrier’s energy expenditure stood at Rs 290.22 billion in 2014-15, […]

Electrical appliances account for a major share in the energy bills of consumers received on a monthly or annual basis. As a result, many home appliance manufacturers, as well as the government, have shifted their […]

For long, industries such as cement, steel and sugar have followed a linear production model, under which a lot of waste heat generated during industrial processes goes unutilised. Given the quantum of waste heat energy […]