Climate Change Data

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2017, 2020, 2020-21, 2021-22)

Reporting Period: 2017

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Inclusive India
  • Healthy India
  • Clean India
  • Educated India
  • Responsible India
  • Green India
  • Heritage India

Climate Goals & Targets

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2020

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Community Development

Social Achievements

  • Construction of Concrete Cement Road at three villages: Musturu, Siddihally and Moodala Machikere under Jagaluru Taluk at Davanegere District, Karnataka

Climate Goals & Targets

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2020-21

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:96,110 tCO2e/year (Scope 1 & 2)
Scope 1 Emissions:96,110 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:227,933 tCO2e/year
Renewable Energy Share:3.95% of total energy use
Total Energy Consumption:2480.35 TJ/year
Water Consumption:20.35 million m3/year
Waste Generated:52,696 tons/year (non-hazardous), 965 tons/year (hazardous)
Carbon Intensity:18.76 MT CO2-e per crore INR of Gross Turnover

ESG Focus Areas

  • Environmental
  • Social
  • Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Established 28 MWp of Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV) power plants, generating 27.2 million units of green electricity and avoiding 26,118 MT CO2-e emissions.
  • All townships certified as ‘Single Use Plastic Free’ zones.
  • Planted more than 35,500 saplings.

Social Achievements

  • Supplied over 5,75,000 Cu Mtrs of medical oxygen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Developed and supplied medical oxygen plants for hospitals.
  • Developed and manufactured disinfection equipment.

Governance Achievements

  • Revamped Performance Management System.
  • Launched PEACE (Positive Emotional Alignment through Counselling Experience) employee support initiative.
  • Developed online Site Safety Assessment System.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • COVID-19 pandemic affecting economies and BHEL’s performance.
  • Excess domestic manufacturing capacities, changes in business mix due to policy changes and increasing competition.
  • Delayed delivery of projects.
  • Rising debtors.
  • Rising direct material cost.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Ensuring safety and wellbeing of employees and supporting society.
  • Supplying medical oxygen and developing oxygen generation plants.
  • Focusing on opportunities from ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Make in India’ missions.
  • Increasing non-coal based and spares business.
  • Implementing ‘Integrated Project Management Software (IPMS)’ for real-time project monitoring.
  • Implementing PEDM system to expedite drawing/document submission.
  • Formation of dedicated business groups.
  • Policy enablement to improve contractor manpower availability.
  • Formation of Cost Optimization Cell (COC).

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Supporting MSMEs and local suppliers.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standards (Comprehensive option)

Certifications: ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • AUSC Technology
  • Coal to Methanol technologies
  • Solar cells and modules
  • Space-grade solar panels
  • Space-grade battery
  • PV products (Solar Inverters, Solar Passive Trackers, Solar PV cells and PV modules)
  • PERC technology for high efficiency c-Si solar cells
  • PEM fuel cell stack
  • Proton-exchange membrane (PEM) Fuel cell powered Hybrid Electric Golf cart vehicle.

Awards & Recognition

  • Golden Peacock Environment Management Award (GPEMA) - 2020
  • Apex India “Gold Award” 2020

Reporting Period: 2021-22

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Environmental
  • Social
  • Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Carbon footprint avoidance of nearly 25,235 MT of CO2-equivalent through in-house 29 MWp solar power installations
  • 10 manufacturing units are now ‘Zero Liquid Discharge’ entities
  • Successfully commissioned indigenously designed 0.25 TPD coal to methanol pilot plant using 1.2 TPD Fluidized bed gasifier plant at Hyderabad

Social Achievements

  • Supplied over 80,000 cylinders of medical grade oxygen supporting almost entire Uttarakhand, western UP, parts of NCR and the city of Bhopal
  • Vaccination drives were carried out across manufacturing units/ divisions/ project sites
  • Launched a ‘COVID Assistance Scheme’ for providing aid & support to the dependents of employees who unfortunately succumbed to COVID-19

Governance Achievements

  • Improved project execution, tight financial control, focus on quality and development of manpower resources
  • Regained Platinum recognition for HEEP Haridwar and HEP Bhopal, and Gold Plus recognition for HPBP Trichy and HPEP Hyderabad under “CII EXIM Bank award for Business Excellence 2021”

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Building capabilities as well as markets for areas such as defence, aerospace, urban mobility including rail transportation, as well as for futuristic businesses based on emerging technologies such as carbon capture, hydrogen value chain, additive manufacturing, IIoT based solutions, etc.
Medium-term Goals:
  • Intensifying diversification initiatives to create a foothold in new businesses
Short-term Goals:
  • Turning the company around through initiatives and enablers for timely, cost effective and quality project execution as well as creating an order book pipeline by enhancing its market share in traditional business

Environmental Challenges

  • Global supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 restrictions, as well as geopolitical developments leading to drastic increase in input costs
  • Declining thermal market and a volatile business scenario
  • Supply chain disruptions affecting timely availability of critical raw material for shop production
  • Global shortage of critical inputs viz., Semiconductor Chips, CRGO and CRNGO impacting product deliveries
Mitigation Strategies
  • Reorientation of the company’s operational ideology, from ‘Revenue Centric’ to ‘Project Centric’
  • Business diversification
  • Prudent financial management
  • Cost optimization in design, indigenization
  • Focus on securing orders from strategic sectors such as Nuclear, defence, aerospace, etc.
  • Implementation of Integrated Project Management System (IPMS) coupled with ongoing work on Site Data Digitization (SDD)

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Integrity Pact

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Not disclosed
Transition Risks
  • Not disclosed
Opportunities
  • Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, UNGC

Certifications: ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Advanced Ultra Supercritical Technology
  • Pressurized Fluidized Bed Gasification (PFBG) technology
  • Passivated Emitter Rear Contact (PERC) technology
  • Heterojunction solar cell technology
  • Permanent magnet motors, Induction motors & IGBT controller for E-Buses, Electric Charging Stations for E-mobility infrastructure

Awards & Recognition

  • Golden Peacock Innovative Product/ Service Award 2021
  • Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2021
  • Clarivate South and South East Asia Innovation Award 2021
  • EEPC India Northern Region Award for Engineering Export Excellence
  • Asia’s Best CSR Practices Award