Fast Tracking Energy Efficiency in India’s Secondary Steel Sector

New Delhi, December 11, 2015: India is one of the largest steel producers in the world. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is partnering with the Ministry of Steel, Government of India and Australian Aid to implement an upscaling project in the small steel industry to leverage new and innovative energy-efficient technologies to ensure energy conservation in the industry.

Till now, 385 units have signed up for the programme and 282 of them already implemented energy efficiency measures. To highlight such achievements and discuss the way forward, a day-long national meet on “Fast tracking energy efficiency in the secondary steel sector” was organized today at  New Delhi.

The objective of the meet was to share implementation experiences, felicitate units that have adopted the energy efficiency measures, campaign for fast tracking energy efficiency for those who are yet to adopt the measures and deepen energy efficiency in the units that have adopted first set of interventions.

Aruna Sunderarajan, Secretary, Ministry of Steel delivered the keynote address at the inaugural session, followed by special remarks by Yuri Afanasiev, UN Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative, UNDP in India. The plenary and technical sessions discussed and deliberated on the scope, impact and future of advanced technologies in secondary steel sector.