Power conservation measures adopted by the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, came up for high praise from Chairman and Managing Director of APTransco Ajay Jain.
Accompanied by EPDCL Chairman-cum-Managing Director Ahmad Nadeem, Mr. Jain visited VSP and held discussions with RINL Chairman-cum-Managing Director A.P. Choudhary and other senior officers on Saturday evening.
They witnessed a PowerPoint presentation on the performance of the VSP and its novel initiatives on energy savings and generation of power from waste heat.
Mr. Jain lauded the performance of the VSP, especially its proactive measures in containing power consumption and its initiatives on waste energy recovery facilities such as coke dry quenching, back pressure turbine station, gas expansion turbine station, LD gas recovery system, supervisory control and data acquisition system, and evaporative cooling systems.