India’s largest producer of aluminium Vedanta Aluminium announced that its largest aluminium smelter has substantially reduced its GHG or greenhouse gas emissions intensity (by around 12% in FY22 over the previous fiscal, while increasing production volume by 20%. On World Environment Day, Vedanta Aluminium commits to reduce GHG emissions intensity by 25% by 2030, over FY21 baseline, as part of its climate action endeavours. Historically, Vedanta Aluminium has reduced its GHG emissions intensity by 21% in the 2012-21 period, while almost tripling its production in the same period.Vedanta Aluminium has deployed a multi-pronged approach for combating climate change. This includes operating plants at high levels of operational efficiencies, increasing quantum of renewables in energy mix, and transitioning to cleaner fuels from fossil fuels. Testimony to its climate action initiatives1. Vedanta Aluminium is the first from India to launch low carbon ‘green’ aluminium, branded Restora, whose carbon footprint is nearly half of the global threshold of 4 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per tonne of aluminium for low carbon aluminium 2. Vedanta Aluminium is India’s largest consumer of renewable energy, at 3 billion units in FY223. The company has signed a Power Delivery Agreement for 380 MW of renewable energy for its aluminium smelters4. It has commissioned India’s largest industrial electric fleet of 27 forklifts powered by lithium-ion batteries5. It has expanded its existing carbon sink with plantation of 4 lakh more saplings in FY226. Vedanta Aluminium’s BALCO plant continues to be the national benchmark in lowest Specific Power Consumption or SPC (a metric which establishes the energy efficiency of operations; lower SPC denotes higher energy efficiency)7. Operational efficiency and energy conservation initiatives have resulted in energy savings of 23 lakh Giga Joules in FY228. Created 9 rainwater harvesting infrastructures in last fiscal alone, having a combined water saving potential of 194 million litres
India’s largest producer of aluminium Vedanta Aluminium announced that its largest aluminium smelter has substantially reduced its GHG or greenhouse gas emissions intensity (by around 12% in FY22 over the previous fiscal, while increasing production volume by 20%. On World Environment Day, Vedanta Aluminium commits to reduce GHG emissions intensity by 25% by 2030, over FY21 baseline, as part of its climate action endeavours. Historically, Vedanta Aluminium has reduced its GHG emissions intensity by 21% in the 2012-21 period, while almost tripling its production in the same period.Vedanta Aluminium has deployed a multi-pronged approach for combating climate change. This includes operating plants at high levels of operational efficiencies, increasing quantum of renewables in energy mix, and transitioning to cleaner fuels from fossil fuels. Testimony to its climate action initiatives1. Vedanta Aluminium is the first from India to launch low carbon ‘green’ aluminium, branded Restora, whose carbon footprint is nearly half of the global threshold of 4 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per tonne of aluminium for low carbon aluminium 2. Vedanta Aluminium is India’s largest consumer of renewable energy, at 3 billion units in FY223. The company has signed a Power Delivery Agreement for 380 MW of renewable energy for its aluminium smelters4. It has commissioned India’s largest industrial electric fleet of 27 forklifts powered by lithium-ion batteries5. It has expanded its existing carbon sink with plantation of 4 lakh more saplings in FY226. Vedanta Aluminium’s BALCO plant continues to be the national benchmark in lowest Specific Power Consumption or SPC (a metric which establishes the energy efficiency of operations; lower SPC denotes higher energy efficiency)7. Operational efficiency and energy conservation initiatives have resulted in energy savings of 23 lakh Giga Joules in FY228. Created 9 rainwater harvesting infrastructures in last fiscal alone, having a combined water saving potential of 194 million litres
