Have a suggestion to conserve energy or stop power leakages? The Andhra Pradesh Government has appealed to the people in general and stakeholders in particular to come out with creative ways to conserve energy.

The Energy Conservation Committee (ECC) of Energy Department of Andhra Pradesh, which met here on Sunday under the Chairmanship of senior bureaucrat Mr Ahmed Nadeem, to email their suggestions >membersecretary.ecc@gmail.com or post it to Vidyut Soudha, the energy headquarters in Hyderabad.

To begin with, the committee would focus on the four priority sectors of industry, agriculture, domestic and Government organisations. It set up four sub-committees to get back from each of these areas. CPDCL (Central Power Distribution Company Ltd or Central discom) would collect feedback from the industry, while NPDCL (northern discom, Warangal) and EPDCL (eastern discom, Visakhapatnam) would study issues related to domestic sector and SPDCL (southern discom, Tirupati) would work on government useage angle.

“The objective of the Government is to balance the energy supply and demand with maximum resource efficiency and to reduce power deficiency. This is also aimed at providing quality power to all categories of consumers,” the Member-Secretary, Energy Coordination, said here in a statement.

Mr Dinesh Kumar, Principal Secretary (Energy Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh), asked the ECC to submit a comprehensive and implementable report to the Government by the end of September.

“The committee has resolved to implement Bachat Lamp Yojana scheme in all the four Discoms (power distribution companies) soon. It also discussed issues such as the high-efficiency lighting programme, energy efficiency improvement methods in agriculture sector and use of advanced technology,” he said.

During the meeting, the ECC decided to set up a sub-committee at each discom level to get feedback on effectiveness of the programme and convey the same to the State-level committee.

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