Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta Group company in zinc-lead-silver business has received the 2^nd Prize in the National Energy Conservation Award – 2015 in the Thermal Power Stations Sector (Coal fired plants < 100 MW capacity) constituted by Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Government of India.

 The Award has been given for Hindustan Zinc’s Zawar Unit  –  1×80 MW CPP-Zawar.

 The Award was presented by Shri Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister of State (I/C) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, Govt. of India at the function held on National Energy Conservation Day at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 14^th Dec.’2015.

 On behalf of Hindustan Zinc, the award was received by Mr. R. P. Mali, Head – CPP, Zawar.

 All units of Hindustan Zinc are power independent and operate on captive thermal power plants with a power generation capacity of 474 MW.  Hindustan Zinc has also expanded in Green Energy by setting up 275 MW wind energy farms in the state of Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.