Independent Power Producers Association of India (IPPAI) awarded Hindustan Zinc with Power Awards 2016 for ‘best innovation in power sector. In a glittering award ceremony held at Hotel Lalit, Goa on 24th Sept. 2016, the coveted award was presented by Subramanian (Former Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) and received by A.K Singh, GM – DSC CPP, M.S Rathore, Manager – Engineering & Planning (CPP) and Arindam Ghosh, Engineer – DSC CPP in presence of IPPAI Director General, Salman Khurshid (former Cabinet Minister) and senior executives of leading companies.

Hindustan Zinc’s Head Corporate Communication, Pavan Kaushik said “the Company has been able to achieve power sufficiency in its business operations. All the Units are power sufficient and do not depend on the State Grid for power.”

Hindustan Zinc’s wind power generation as a financially and environmentally viable solution for India’s rapidly increasing energy requirements. The Company has green energy farms with 274 MW of power generation capacity in Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The wind power projects have been registered under Clean Development Mechanism of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and are entitled to the carbon credits.