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Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Program

Energy Efficiency is a broad effort by CSTEP to provide the intelligence needed for lowering energy intensity of industrial processes, making them more efficient and productive. There are currently several initiatives underway in the Energy Efficiency Program which are driven by the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency under the Prime Minister’s National Action Plan for Climate Change.

  1. Analyzing energy efficiency, consumption, and scenarios in various energy intensive industrial sectors in India.
  2. Creating a detailed study of how processes in the cement sector can be made less energy intensive. This involves data collection, analysis and modeling.
  3. A study of energy consumption in discrete manufacturing processes and in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This involves regular visits to small scale manufacturing industry where we measure the energy consumed in various manufacturing processes and develop insights for reducing energy consumption in specific processes.
  4. Develop a methodology for setting targets for seven energy intensive industrial clusters. This work is being conducted closely with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Government of India. This work is being done for Iron & Steel, Cement, Aluminium, Pulp & Paper, Fertilizer, Textiles and Chlor-Alkali sectors which are the major energy intensive components of Indian industry.
  5. Development of a detailed Sub-process level model of energy consumption and efficiency which can be used for computing energy efficiency potentials for each cluster. This work is being used to design a tool which can be deployed to plan energy efficiency improvement for a specific plant based on relevant plant parameters and the sector performance indicators.
  6. Creating a market model for the Indian cement industrial sector based on the Bureau of Energy Efficiency’s Perform, Achieve and Trade policy. This can be used for simulation of various design options of the PAT mechanism and to provide specific policy recommendations for these options based on various scenarios.