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CII's Energy Summit inaugurated by Secretary,
Ministry of Power
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Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII) launched the fifth edition of "Energy
Summit 2002" a flag ship event on energy management, organised
from 2-5 December 2002.
The summit was inaugurated today by Mr. R V Shahi, Secretary, Ministry
of Power, Govt of India. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Shahi listed
out energy conservation potential available in various sectors - agriculture
(30%), industry (25%), domestic (20%) and transportation (20%).
There is a potential to save at least 25000 MW of power through Demand
Side Management, which otherwise would call for an investment of Rs
100,000 crores.
He said creating awareness and adoption of energy efficient technologies
are some of the issues, which the energy conservation act will address
to give a major fillip to energy conservation activities amongst the
industry and community.
He said that the role of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) being set
up would be to empower government to develop building codes, labeling
for white goods equipment and develop industry norms.
Mr K N Shenoy, Past President, CII and Former chairman, ABB Ltd
in his Keynote address observed that the contribution of the manufacturing
sector to the GDP should grow from the current level of 26%, if India
has to achieve a GDP growth rate of 8%. He observed that the contribution
of the manufacturing sector to the country's GDP is 50% in China and
40% in Thailand.
Mr Shenoy added that, if companies need to be excellent on energy
conservation it requires the commitment of top management, institution
of energy managers at unit level, training of manpower and conducting
periodic energy and technology audits.
Mr T Kannan, Chairman, CII (SR) emphasized that the competitiveness
of Indian industry is vital to the growth of state. Power being a
major competent of the manufacturing cost, he called upon TNEB to
be a trendsetter in reducing the power tariff for the industry.
Mr K Vasudevan, Chairman, Energy Summit 2002 said that CII
recently submitted to TNERC that the industrial power tariff should
not be increased and instead TNEB should look for internal reduction
in operating cost. He said that CII also made a presentation to state
planning commission on alternative models of power sector reforms,
considering lessons through the models implemented in states like
Orissa, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Mr V Narasimhan, Chairman, EnCon Technology Meet said that
the Foundry sector is losing to countries like China, where the overall
manufacturing cost is at least 15 - 16% lower on account of low cost
of power. He added that adopting energy conservation technologies
are vital, if the competitiveness of the industry is to be enhanced.
Mr L S Ganapati Co-Chairman, Encon Technology Meet proposed
a Vote of thanks.
More than 350 delegates and 25 speakers drawn from India and abroad
(USA, Germany, UAE, Japan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia) participated in the
summit.
4 December 2002
Chennai
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