National Dairy Development Board on Thursday confirmed it has signed an agreement with Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) to endorse efficient renewable technologies in the dairy industry. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) had been signed on May 5 at Ananda, Gujarat by NDDB Executive Director Meenesh Shah and EESL Director (Projects) Venkatesh Dwivedi in the existence of senior officials, it stated in a statement.
According to the agreement, EESL will conceptualise, propose and design technically sound alternate energy generation solutions for plants in the dairy cooperative segment across the country.
It would also arrange essential technical and
funding comfort for the design, development and operation of the non-conventional energy generation models.
However National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) would extend its expertise in dairy business/dairy plant management/other related activities to facilitate /support conceptualising, development and implementation of the alternate energy generation models.
The Dairy Board would also support in the development, monitoring and evaluation of programmes leading to assessment of outcome/impact of projects.
Articulating on the occasion, NDDB Chairperson Varsha Joshi said NDDB and EESL would work together to design and develop innovative business models (energy-efficient solutions) for dairy cooperative institutions, which are transparent, scalable and flexible enough to flawlessly embrace different and emerging technologies in a manner that incentivises all the stakeholders.
She stressed the requirement of propagating such technically sound and financially viable models meeting the need for electricity, steam and hot water in the dairy cooperative network.
EESL Executive Vice Chairman Saurabh Kumar recommended that the robust dairy cooperative network could economise operational costs by adopting energy-efficient solutions, the statement said.
