Tata Steel receives National Energy Conservation Award 2010 under the integrated steel sector category today. Tata Steel has been conferred 2nd prize by the Hon’ble Union Minister of Power, Mr Sushilkumar Shinde, Ministry of Power; Government of India. The award, under the integrated steel sector category, acknowledges Tata Steel’s excellence in the use of energy.

The award was received by Mr. J.P.N. Singh, Chief, Fuel Management, Tata Steel. Tata Steel has been evaluated on the basis of energy conservation measures implemented during 2009-10. It has also taken into consideration the future plans put in place by Tata Steel for energy conservation.

The award is aimed to create an environment that would spur these establishments in achieving excellence end use of energy. The awards were given away for the first time on December 14th in 1991, which was declared as the `National Energy Conservation Day’. Since then, National Energy Conservation Awards have always attracted the attention of Industrial and Commercial Sector establishments and increasing participation level year after year is a proof of the same.

Tata Steel is committed to conserve the scarce energy resources of the earth. Tata Steel has in place energy conservation commitment policy aimed rationalization of energy use, matters relating to the recovery and waste utilization. To meet the task concrete measures for efficient use of energy, its recovery and waste utilization have been formulated focused towards benchmarking of the process and sub process and identification of gaps. The policy commitment also include 100% online monitoring of energy parameters, State of Art instrumentation and control, process integration, waste heat recovery and enhancing awareness of energy efficiency by publicity and competitions. Tata Steel has benchmarked with World Steel Association for its plant specific energy consumption.

About Tata Steel
Established in 1907 as Asia's first integrated private sector steel company, Tata Steel Group is among the top-ten global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of over 28 million tonnes per annum (mtpa). It is now the world's second-most geographically-diversified steel producer, with operations in 26 countries and a commercial presence in over 50 countries. The Tata Steel Group, with a turnover of US$ 23 billion in FY 10, has over 80,000 employees across five continents and is a Fortune 500 company. The Group’s vision is to be the world’s steel industry benchmark in “Value Creation” and “Corporate Citizenship” through the excellence of its people, its innovative approach and overall conduct. Underpinning this vision is a performance culture committed to aspiration targets, safety and social responsibility, continuous improvement, openness and transparency. In 2008, Tata Steel India became the first integrated steel plant in the world, outside Japan, to be awarded the Deming Application Prize 2008 for excellence in Total Quality Management.