Tata Power : Club Enerji celebrates Gandhi Jayanti by spreading the message of energy conservation in Mumbai

Club Enerji, Tata Power's nationwide movement, has been constantly working towards spreading the message of being responsible citizens by conservation of energy and natural resources across the country. In line with this commitment, Tata Power's Club Enerji students from Sri Ma Bal Niketan High School in Thane East, organised an Awareness Rally in Mumbai, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti to create social awareness around the necessity of energy conservation and to commemorate father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi. More than 600 students along with the teachers participated in this rally.

The objective of the rally was to educate a large audience about the need for energy conservation, and introduce them to the various ways of conserving energy. In addition to message on energy conservation, the students also shouted slogans for saving the natural resources and environment protection. The student before the rally, assembled to prepare banners, placards, and posters which depicted themes of energy and natural resources conservation. Through this well planned and executed rally the students successfully sensitized 2500 people.

Speaking on this initiative, Mr. Anil Sardana, MD & CEO, Tata Power, said, 'Tata Power's Club Enerji was created with the purpose of molding young minds to make them wiser and more responsible individuals. While we started the initiative, it was the enthusiastic response of students that has enabled Club Enerji to become a movement. On this day of Gandhi Jayanti, we would like to honour the Mahatma and strive to inculcate his teachings and values in our students. We have been successful in reaching out to numerous schools across cities, and such rallies are a step forward in taking our message of conservation to the masses. I take this opportunity to thank the students and management of Shri Ma Bal Niketan High School who made this rally a grand success.'

The Club Enerji initiative has been contributing extensively towards a brighter and greener tomorrow by undertaking several successful initiatives. The savings of 17.26 MUs of electricity is equivalent to saving 17,200 tonne of CO2 for a year. Tata Power's Club Enerji has won numerous accolades and has been recognised as a best practice in forums like Learning Mission by the Tata group. A case study has also been done by IIM Ahmedabad on the programme. Further, it has also won the gold at the ABCI awards in the category 'best communication material' and bronze for its resource conservation module; Asia Pacific Enterprise Leadership Awards (APELA), Singapore, has conferred 'APELA 2012 - Eco Advocate Award' to Club Enerji.

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 12.8 million, collectively saved 17.2 million units of electricity and is present in 11 cities across 500 schools in India.

About Tata Power:
Tata Power is India's largest integrated power company with a growing international presence. The Company, together with its subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities presently has an installed gross generation capacity of 9,432 MW and a presence in all the segments of the power sector viz. Fuel Security and Logistics, Generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind), Transmission, Distribution and Trading. Post WREPL acquisition the installed gross generation capacity would be 10,573 MW. It has successful public-private partnerships in Generation, Transmission and Distribution in India namely 'Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited' with Delhi Vidyut Board for distribution in North Delhi, 'Powerlinks Transmission Ltd.' with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro plant in Bhutan to Delhi and 'Maithon Power Ltd.' with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1,050 MW power project in Jharkhand. Tata Power is serving more than 2 million distribution consumers in India and has developed the country's first 4,000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology. It is also one of the largest renewable energy players in India. Its international presence includes strategic investments in Indonesia through a 30% stake in the leading coal company PT Kaltim Prima Coal ('KPC'), 26% stake in mines at PT Baramulti Suksessarana Tbk ('BSSR'), in Singapore through Trust Energy Resources Pte. Limited to securitize coal supply and the shipping of coal for its thermal power generation operations; in South Africa through a joint venture called 'Cennergi' to develop projects in sub-Saharan Africa; in Zambia through 50:50 joint venture with ZESCO for 120 MW Hydro which has become operational in 2016; in Georgia through AGL which is a joint venture with Clean Energy, Norway and IFC for development of 185 MW hydro project which is scheduled to be commissioned in 2016; in Australia through investments in enhanced geothermal and clean coal technologies and in Bhutan through a hydro project in partnership with The Royal Government of Bhutan. With its track record of technology leadership, project execution excellence, world class safety processes, customer care and driving green initiatives, Tata Power is poised for a multi-fold growth and committed to 'lighting up lives' for generations to come'. Visit us at: www.tatapower.com