Club Enerji (formerly known as Tata Power Energy Club) Tata Power’s nationwide energy conservation movement has gained tremendous impetus with the focus and dedication of school children to spread awareness across the county.
Over 600 school students from various schools across Mumbai came together to spread the message about energy conservation across the western suburbs of Mumbai. Students from Springfield Rizvi School, Bandra undertook the following activities as part of the three day awareness campaign to Save Energy:
Door-to-door sensitisation programme at Diamond Apartments, Maharshi Valmiki Road, Mahim (East) was undertaken on 22nd September. Students from VIII Standard sensitised residents of more than 70 apartments.
Poster making and T-shirt painting competition on the theme of ‘Global Warming’, ‘Save electricity, Save future’, ‘Let us join hand and save the globe’ and ‘Green Environment’was organized at the school on 23rd September. The competitions witnessed participation of over 300 students from V to VIII Standard.
Students of St Mary’s School, Malad (West) carried out an interesting activity, whereby they identified catchment areas around their school to sensitize citizens on the energy conservation. The traffic signal outside Inorbit Mall, Malad was identified as one of the spots and students sensitized the people all through-out the day. The activity was undertaken on Saturday, 24th September, so that the weekend would provide an opportunity to interact with maximum people visiting the mall.
Further, students of Children’s Academy, Asha Nagar, Kandivali (East) organized a rally as part of the energy conservation awareness campaign on 23rd September. The rally witnessed enthusiastic participation from over 100 students.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Anil Sardana, Tata Power said, “We are happy that Club Enerji is playing a vital role in aiding young minds, who have been the core influencers in advocating energy and resource conservation. The enthusiasm, involvement and dedication of the school students to spread the message about energy conservation is remarkable and has contributed towards making this a national movement. We would also like to thank the teachers and principals of the schools in extending their support to this initiative.”
Tata Power Energy Club has covered 400 schools and sensitised more than 2.8 million (28 lakh) citizens across the nation and over 3 million units of electricity have been saved till date. The Club is proud to have more than 19095 Energy Champions and 32257 Energy Ambassadors this year who are spreading the mantra of energy conservation among people across various age and income groups. Today, there are 154 mini Tata Power Energy Clubs across Mumbai, which are run by the school children with the aim to stop wastage of electricity.
Club Enerji encourages students to form their own mini energy clubs in their school and societies, to propagate the message of energy conservation to citizens and society at large. Club Enerji also has various nationwide engagement programmes like Energy-Q (Quiz competition), Spark of Life (Poster making contest), Every Watt Counts (Essay Competition), newsletter, and an exciting website. With informative and interesting publications like Energy Book - ‘Watts up with Energy?’, activity booklets, audio-visuals and anthem. This year, Club Enerji aims at sensitizing more than 1.5 million citizens, saving over 3.5 million units of electricity and forming 1000 self-sustaining mini enerji clubs across the county.
About Tata Power Club Enerji:
Tata Power started its school outreach programme, “Tata Power Energy Club” in 2007. In 2009, Club Enerji took its next big leap, with the programme turning into a national movement, covering more than 250 schools across Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Calcutta, Belgaum, Jamshedpur and Lonavla and further attained a new milestone of achieving over one million citizens sensitization and more than one million units energy savings. School children, from Class III to Class IX, are taught the importance of conserving energy through innovative modules which include audio-visuals and power point presentations. Children are imparted energy saving and resource conservation tips during these sessions, usage of which have shown dramatic savings. In 2010-11, Tata Power Energy Club sensitized over 2.5 lakh children across 285 schools nationwide; these children have further reached out to more than eight lakh people, thereby taking the total sensitization figure to over 1 (One) million citizens. The Club members have collectively saved 2,019,563 units of electricity.
About Tata Power:
Tata Power is India's largest private sector power utility with an installed generation capacity of over 3182 MW and a presence in all the segments of the power sector viz Generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind), Transmission, Distribution and Trading. The Company has successful public-private partnerships in Generation, Transmission and Distribution - "North Delhi Power Limited" with Delhi Vidyut Board for distribution in North Delhi, 'Powerlinks Transmission Ltd.' with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro plant in Bhutan to Delhi and 'Maithon Power Ltd.' with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1050 MW Mega Power Project at Jharkhand. It has acquired 30% stake in Coal Companies at Indonesia and is developing the first 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology. With its track record of technology leadership, customer care and redefining contours of the Indian power sector, Tata Power is poised for a five-fold growth and committed to 'lighting up lives' for generations to come.
