Reducing Specific Energy Consumption

Of the total energy (steam and electricity) consumed by ITC units, 95.6% was generated internally and 4.4% was purchased from State Electricity Boards/Public utilities.

3712 TJ (27.9% of ITC’s total requirement) was generated from renewable sources including wastes in Bhadrachalam.

Benchmarked Specific Energy Consumption

Bhadrachalam unit alone accounts for 67.4% of ITC’s total energy requirements.

Significant efforts, therefore, continue to be directed towards minimising specific energy consumption, a measure of energy requirement per unit of production, in this unit.

The Bhadrachalam unit achieved 10.7% reduction in specific energy consumption over the previous year - a very significant achievement for a mill that is not only the greenest* paperboards mill in India but also amongst one of India’s most energy efficient ones.

ITC’s Cigarette units achieved 3.03% reduction in specific energy consumption over the year 2004-05. The average specific energy consumption for the Cigarette business units now stands at 7.99 GJ/million cigarettes.

(*All about Paper - The life cycle of the Indian pulp and paper industry, Green Rating Project by The Centre for Science and Environment, 2004.)