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Another first in the world at Kalwa
Zsolt Sluitner, Head of Siemens Real Estate, Siemens AG, and Sunil Mathur, Siemens India CEO, inaugurated the facility today.
More than 6,800 solar modules
cover 13,640 square meters
across three factory roofs in
Kalwa. The 2.2 Megawatt peak
solar plant will generate around
2.9 Million Kilowatt hour of
power, around 13 percent of
the annual consumption of the
Kalwa Factory Complex and
enough to power 2,900
households!
The plant cuts annual CO2
emissions by 2,400 tonnes –
equal to 62,000 newly-planted
trees! The generation and
consumption of power as well
as water and security will be
monitored from the spanking
new Energy Monitoring &
Control Centre. This is the first
facility of such magnitude
installed in an existing factory
anywhere in the Siemens world!
The solar plant is the result of
an outstanding collaborative
effort by the team from
Siemens Real Estate together
with colleagues across the
Siemens organization, who
work on Solar Decentralized Energy
Systems (DES).
Zsolt Sluitner, Head of Siemens Real
Estate, Siemens AG, and Sunil Mathur,
Siemens India CEO, inaugurated the
facility today. “In order to continuously
improve our customer’s efficiency, we
have energy efficiency programs in place
since long. Slashing energy costs and
reducing carbon emissions goes hand in
hand. As Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser puts it,
a low carbon footprint is not only good
corporate citizenship, it’s also good
business. I can confirm that this is the first
example worldwide in a brownfield
solution. I hope a lot of our customers will
be impressed with this and will buy our
systems. It will help us to reduce costs,
improve efficiency and leverage dynamic
load management. Kalwa is a very good
example for me of sustainability and EHS
efforts,” said Mr. Sluitner.
Mr Mathur said, “The government is
talking about a 100 gigawatts of
renewables; 75 gigawatts of that is solar
rooftop. Very few cases of this being done
on brownfield rooftop installations.
Being green is critical for us… but more
importantly Kalwa being in the center of
Mumbai’s commercial district, this is
a first real example to show our customers
of what even SMEs can do in their
manufacturing environment. We are
looking at digitalization as a major step
forward in Siemens. For this, we need
to be able to demonstrate that it makes
business sense!”
Sangeeta Ray, Head of SRE, Siemens India,
explains, “The power plant would be used
as a captive power plant. The return of
investment will be through a re-financing
model worked out based on annual
existing energy consumption of units.
The team was exceptional, completing the
entire project less than 9 months during
running factory operations and
overcoming challenges such as limited
access, traffic movement and weather!”
The solar PV project at Kalwa is a replicable
model for other factories within Siemens
and makes an excellent business case for
customers. It fits into the decarbonization
plans of Siemens and showcases the
technologies that we sell to our customers
in our own operations.
• Marina Patrao
For more information,
write to insight.in@siemens.com
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