At Universal Power Projects Pvt Ltd, we believe that preserving and enhancing Natural world is important in our journey to build a more resilient business. Our plans to enhance the natural world revolve around our strategies on three broad focus areas of decarbonisation, water positive approach and circularity. The core of this strategy includes initiatives to reduce energy consumption and minimise carbon footprint, conserve and recycle water, bring down material consumption and reduce and recycle waste, amongst others, in addition to deploying new technologies and enabling a sustainable supply chain.
Decarbonisation
Universal Group is constantly striving to reduce the environmental impact of all its business activities, especially manufacturing and construction, with stringent internal control criteria for reduction in energy consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) defined for all locations. Our Scope 1 emissions are due to the consumption of fuels such as petrol, high speed diesel, furnace oil, natural gas, LPG and CNG. Our Scope 2 emissions are on account of utilisation of the grid electricity supplied by state utilities.
We operate in an industry which is highly energy intensive and hence opportunities to minimise energy consumption is an important element of our journey towards decarbonisation. The Company continues to make process improvements and investments in energy efficiency initiatives to reduce carbon footprint.

Key Initiatives:
Installation of additional solar energy capacity at manufacturing units in Jaipur and Nagpur, and a new solar plant in Dubai (in progress), to increase the share of renewable energy in our energy mix and reduce specific greenhouse gas emissions as well as costs Procurement of energy from renewable sources to fulfil energy requirement for Cables plants in Mysuru and Vadodara Use of induction furnace based on electricity instead of fossil fuel, for lower carbon emissions, resulting in an 8% reduction in emissions intensity this year Use of advanced multi-fuel fired furnaces with microprocessor-controlled burners to reduce fuel consumption Deployment of low-cost Kaizen’s such as automation of fuel control valves for better control of fuel usage in Bending Furnace Installation of waste heat recovery system and use of latent flue gases for galvanising furnaces to conserve energy Deployment of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions and elimination of exhaust fans by replacing them with natural ventilators Shifting / re-planting of trees that may be affected by construction activities