Both power plants at Vedanta Jharsuguda, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, were awarded as the ‘Best Water-Efficient Plant’ at the Water Optimization Conference, organised by the Mission Energy Foundation.
Vedanta’s 4×600 MW Thermal Power Plant (TPP) and 9X135 MW Captive Power Plant (CPP) won the awards in the >=500 MW and <=500 MW categories respectively, for their innovative measures to optimize water consumption across their value-chain and increase the share of recycled and reused water.
To further bolster its efforts in water conservation, Vedanta has recently commissioned a Reverse Osmosis (RO) based effluent treatment plant at its TPP in Jharsuguda. The 500 m3/hr capacity plant will collect wastewater from various processes and will treat it to make it useful for various purposes across the plant, thereby ensuring maximum recycling of wastewater and conservation of freshwater.
Speaking about the company’s water stewardship, Deepak Prasad, Dy. CEO, Vedanta Ltd., Jharsuguda said, “We have laser-sharp focus on water conservation at our operations and beyond and this award is a recognition of our efforts. In line with our mission ‘Zero Harm, Zero Waste and Zero Discharge’, we have adopted various robust measures to recycle and reuse wastewater from all plant processes.”
FY21, Vedanta Jharsuguda has recycled a total of 86 lakh litres of water. The company has undertaken robust measures to optimize water consumption across its value-chain and increase the share of recycled and reused water. Water-screening assessment to develop and implement stringent control measures and integration of water management into decision-making processes for all projects are some of the measures among many others taken.