Vedanta Aluminium wins Kalinga Energy and Environment Excellence Awards for sustainability efforts – EQ
In Short : Vedanta Aluminium has won the Kalinga Energy and Environment Excellence Awards, recognizing its sustainability efforts. This accolade highlights Vedanta’s commitment to environmental stewardship and its leadership in promoting sustainable practices within the aluminium industry.
In Detail : The company’s eco-friendly endeavours have been recognized in the highest circles.
The Kalinga Energy Excellence Award and Kalinga Environment Excellence Award has been given to Vedanta Aluminium for their alumina refinery operation located in the Kalahandi district of Lanjigarh. The Odisha State Pollution Control Board, the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, and the Institute of Quality and Environment Management (IQEMS) collaborated to offer these prizes.
Vedanta’s Lanjigarh unit has undertaken multiple initiatives as part of Vedanta Aluminium’s sustainability goals such as Net Zero Carbon by 2050, Net Water Positivity by 2030, effective waste management, biodiversity restoration and adoption of energy-efficient technologies across operations. The company’s eco-friendly endeavours have been recognized in the highest circles; in the S&P Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) rankings for the year 2023, Vedanta Aluminium achieved the highest ranking.
The company’s emphasis on addressing sustainability is evidenced by measures like lithium-ion electric forklifts, use electric vehicles, and the use of renewable energy sources like biomass for boiler cofiring. Production rose by over 20 per cent as a result of these efforts, but overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity fell sharply by around 9.3 per cent in FY24 as compared to the baseline in FY21.
The company has recycled over 15 billion litres of water throughout activities in FY24 by utilising water reutilisation.
Additionally, the company guarantees the profitable use of fly ash, a by product of the power generating process, and bauxite residue; more than 1,00,000 metric tonnes of red mud have been used so far as a result of the use of bauxite residue. In FY23, garbage was utilised more than 200 per cent as a result of these measures.
