Tata Power Club Enerji Organises Awareness Drives on Building a Sustainable Future

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(1888PressRelease) December 29, 2018 - Tata Power’s nationwide resource and energy conservation movement, ‘Club Enerji’ has been relentlessly raising awareness on creating a sustainable future. Continuing with its focus on nation building, Tata Power recently conducted interactive educational drives for students in Mumbai.

These drives are aimed at sensitizing students, the decision makers of tomorrow, to become responsible citizens. Furthering the larger cause of educating the society, Club Enerji organized a joint rally for over 230 students from St. Lawrence School, Kandivali (East) and Ryan International School, Kandivali (East) to spread awareness about resource conservation and biodiversity. A street play was also orchestrated on 'Say No to Plastic' that reached out to around 1500 students and parents.

Club Energy extended this drive in Dahisar in collaboration with BMC R East Ward which witnessed over 300 participants. Present at the drive were around 1000 individuals including parents, students and teachers who were sensitised through a presentation on water management and “Say No to Plastic.

Speaking on these drives, Mr. Praveer Sinha, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Powersaid, “We, at Tata Power are determined to strengthen our Club Enerji programme. It is heartwarming to see the enthusiastic participation of schools and our employees. This makes us strive harder to educate the children and promote awareness on energy conservation as they will become the ambassadors of a sustainable future and will further help in spreading the message to the communities at large.”

Recognizing the immense value that schools and school children can bring to the initiative, Club Enerji was started in 2007 to propagate efficient usage of energy, and to educate the society on climate change issues. Till date, the movement has been successfully implemented in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune, Ajmer, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Belgaum, Lonavala, Bengaluru, and Kolkata.

About Tata Power:
Tata Power is India’s largest integrated power company and, together with its subsidiaries & jointly controlled entities, has an installed capacity of 10857 MW. A pioneer in the field, it has a presence across the entire power value chain: Generation of renewable as well as conventional power including hydro and thermal energy; transmission & distribution, trading and coal & freight logistics. With renewable energy assets in solar and wind accounting for 22% of the company's portfolio, Tata Power is a leader in clean energy generation. In line with the company's view on sustainable and clean energy development, Tata Power is steering the transformation of utilities to integrated solutions by looking at new business growth in EV charging & storage, distributed generation & rooftops, microgrids and home automation & smart meters.

It has successful public-private partnerships in generation, transmission & distribution in India namely: ‘Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd.’ with Delhi Vidyut Board for distribution in North Delhi; 'Tata Power Ajmer Distribution Ltd.' with Ajmer Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd. for distribution in Ajmer; 'Powerlinks Transmission Ltd.' with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro plant in Bhutan to Delhi; 'Maithon Power Ltd.' with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1050 MW Mega Power Project at Jharkhand. Tata Power is serving more than 2.6 million distribution consumers in India and has developed the country’s first 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology.

With growing international focus, Tata Power's global presence includes strategic investments in Indonesia through a 30% stake in the coal company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC); 26% stake in mines at PT Baramulti Suksessarana Tbk (BSSR); in Singapore through Trust Energy Resources; in South Africa through a joint venture called ‘Cennergi’ to develop projects in sub-Sahara Africa; in Zambia through a 50:50 joint venture with ZESCO for 120 MW Hydro project; in Georgia through AGL which is a joint venture with Clean Energy, Norway & IFC for development of 187 MW hydro project; in Bhutan through a hydro project in partnership with The Royal Government of Bhutan.

With its 103 years track record of technology leadership, project execution excellence, world-class safety processes, customer care and driving green initiatives, Tata Power is poised for multi-fold growth and committed to 'lighting up lives' for generations to come.

About Tata Power Club Enerji:
Tata Power started its school outreach programme, "Tata Power Energy Club" in 2007. In 2009, Club Enerji took its next big leap, with the programme turning into a national movement, covering more than 500 schools across Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Belgaum, Jamshedpur and Lonavla and further attained a new milestone of achieving over one million citizens sensitisation and more than one million units energy savings. School children, from Class III to Class IX, are taught the importance of conserving energy through innovative modules which include audiovisuals and power point presentations. Children are imparted energy saving and resource conservation tips during these sessions, usage of which have shown dramatic savings. Club Enerji reached out to more than 15 million, collectively saved 21 million units of electricity and is present in 11 cities across 250 schools in India.

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