EIC Electricity Odisha State Energy Conservation Awards 2015

Organization : Department of Energy & Engineer-In-Chief (Electricity) -cum- Principal Chief Electrical Inspector SDA Odisha
Announcement : Odisha State Energy Conservation Awards 2015
Applicable State : Odisha
Application Last Date : 6th December 2015

Odisha State Energy Conservation Awards 2015 :

The Department of Energy, Govt. of Odisha through the Office of Engineer-in-Chief cum Principal Chief Electrical Inspector as the State Designated Agency, Odisha invites applications from MSMEs, IT Industries, Hospitals, Educational Institutions, Commercial Buildings, Hotels of Odisha who have been making systematic attempts for efficient utilization and conservation of energy, for conferring State Energy Conservation Awards for 2015 based on their performance during Financial Year 2014- 2015. The last date of receipt of completed applications is 6th December 2015.

Introduction :

Odisha has made rapid strides towards economic self-reliance over the last few years. Impressive progress has been made in the fields of industry, agriculture, communication, transport and other sectors necessitating increased consumption of energy for developmental and socio-economic activities. In such a scenario where the State tries to accelerate its development process and cope up with increasing energy demands, there exists various energy related challenges not only in state or national level but in global level also. The major challenges of Growing Energy Demand, Peak Power needs, Lower Energy Intensity, inadequate exploitation of Renewable Energy, Obsolete Energy Technology and supply of Energy for development of the rural sector needs to be addressed for sustaining the economic growth.

Conservation and energy efficiency measure are thus given a central role in the state level energy policy. A movement on energy conservation has already taken shape which strives to significantly reduce the need for new investments in energy supply. Massive rural electrification to make power available to all requires promotion of energy efficiency and its conservation, which is the least cost option to augment the gap between demand and supply. Utmost priority to energy conservation practices across all spectrum of energyusage needs to be ensured.

Objectives :

** To create awareness among the IT Industries, Commercial buildings, Hospitals, Educational Institutions, Hotels, MSMEs, for energy conservation on significance of Energy Conservation & Energy Efficiency and best practices.
** To promote the culture of energy conservation amongst various stake holders.
** To recognise the effort of different entities and other stake holders in conserving energy by way of giving them awards and recognitions / certificates of merits and to subsequently propagate the best practices for large scale replication by different sectors in the state.

Proposed Schedule & Date :

Awards are proposed to be presented on 14th December 2015 during the State level celebration of Energy Conservation Day at Bhubaneswar.

The last date of receipt of completed nominations is 06.12.2015.

Proposed Sectors :

The scheme is open to the following categories:
1) IT Industries
2) Commercial Buildings
3) Hospitals
4) Educational Institutes
5) Hotels having connected load of 50 kW and above and
6) MSME Industries of Odisha only.

Based on the performance (evaluated score) in each category, entities can be considered for Platinum,Gold and Silver awards.

Criteria For Judging Merit :

a) Evaluation will be made on the basis of the information (questionnaires) along with supporting documents furnished with the application.
b) An Award Committee shall be constituted to facilitate the State Level Awards.
c) The members of the Award Committee or their nominees may seek further information or/and visit nominated entity for verification of data supplied, if felt necessary, and it will be obligatory on the part of the management of nominated entities to provide necessary co-operation.
d) The responses to the questions should be precise and specific and should be furnished in total compliance with the questionnaire format. Any deviations may lead to improper evaluation or the rejection of the nomination.
e) Each and every query mentioned in the questionnaire needs to be answered. Even, if the answer is ‘NO’ or `NOT APPLICABLE’ the same should be stated, instead of ignoring it.
f) The questionnaire should be filled in by a competent and responsible person of the nominating entity giving contact details as per the format. He/ she should be fully conversant with the energy terms and units, conversion / multiplying factors etc. The duly filled-in questionnaire should be signed by the Chief Executive/Head of the entity giving contact details as per the format.
g) The Committee’s decision would be final and no appeal would be entertained.

Submission of Nomination :

The scanned copies in jpeg/pdf format of the filled in Questionnaires, the signed and stamped declaration format and all other required documents in support of your application should be sent by E-mail sdaorissa@nic.in with subject “OSECA 2015” and original documents should be sent by Speed Post in sealed envelope super-scribing “OSECA 2015” to the address below so as to reach this office on or before 06.12.2015. SDA Odisha shall not be responsible for any postal delay or delay due to network/internet issues. Organisations are advised to furnish their applications well in advance to avoid any issues related to internet/e-mail. Please visit the website https://web.archive.org/web/20160106134129/http://as1.ori.nic.in:80/eicelectricity/awards.aspx for updates.

Contact :

For any further queries or support in this regard, please contact:
The Engineer-in-Chief (Electricity) cum Principal Chief Electrical Inspector
Power House Square, Unit V, Bhubaneswar 751001

Tel. No.: 0674-2394873,
Fax: 2391255/ 2391024
Email: sdaorissa@nic.in/eic-epcei@nic.in

Note :
The Award Committee reserves the right to amend any criteria, terms and conditions if felt necessary. However, such details shall be updated in the website. The Award Committee also reserves the right to accept / reject any application without assigning any reasons thereof.