Century Plyboards India Ltd, popularly known as “CenturyPly,” has announced the installation of rooftop solar panels at the company’s manufacturing unit in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The company is planning to empower its other manufacturing units with solar power as well within this calendar year.
This initiative at CenturyPly’s end will save around 15 per cent of the total energy consumption at each plant and will help in reducing up to 5,900 tonnes of carbon footprint per year.
CenturyPly is working towards its various modules for a more sustainable future. With a total expansive capacity of 6 mw solar rooftop, CenturyPly aims to fulfil 15-20 per cent of its net power requirement. In addition to this, the company, being a responsible corporate entity, pledges to contribute towards a better environment by utilising the solar rooftops at factories to offset energy costs. Also the company has started drawing power from a group captive wind mill for the Chennai unit, CenturyPly said in a release.
The solar-panelled captive manufacturing unit in Chennai is already at an operational stage. The unit, with a capacity of 1056 KW, aims to contribute towards saving around 1.5 million units of power per year.
India is increasingly looking at the solar option to cut its dependence on thermal power and diesel consumption. The country has a very ambitious target of installing 100 GW of solar power by 2022, out of which 40 GW is expected to come from rooftop solar projects, the CenturyPly release observed.
Aerial view of CenturyPly’s Chennai manufacturing plant, now empowered with rooftop solar panels. The company has planned to similarly equip its other seven manufacturing units, located at Roorkee (Uttarakhand), Kandla (Gujarat), Hoshiarpur (Punjab), Joka (West Bengal), Guwahati (Assam, two units) and Karnal (Haryana).