Role of EESL in Electric Vehicles in India

EESL stands for Energy Efficiency Services Ltd. It is founded in 2009 & promoted by Ministry of Power Govt of India (GOI). It is a joint venture of 4 Public Sector Undertaking Companies like NTPC Ltd, Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC), REC Limited & Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL). This company is backed by Union Ministry of Power.

The role of EESL is to develop energy efficiency programs/technologies for consumers, industries & Government.

Apart from this, its responsibility is to implement energy efficiency program successfully in India which includes lighting, smart metering, agriculture, electric mobility etc.

Seeing the huge market potential & aspiration, GOI has given direction to ESSL to enter into EV filed. The first National E -Mobility Program was launched by Ministry of Power in March, 2018. The purpose of this program is to provide support/push manufacturing of e-vehicles in India, providing technology for charging stations, fleet operators, service providers etc so that India could emerged as a global leader in EV industry.

Under this program, EESL has done following work –

• Procurement of 10,000 e -cars completed which will save over 1.65 Cr liter fuel every year & reduce CO2 emission by 4.42 t.
• Approx 1514 e-cars have been deployed for Govt purpose
• Provided electric vehicles on lease /purchase basis to Govt organizations to replace existing diesel/patrol vehicles.
• It has signed MOUs with various stakeholders (municipality, DISCOM etc) for setting up charging stations in municipality areas in major cities of various states.
• More than 300 charging stations have been set up at different locations in India.

EESL could be contacted on following address –

Energy Efficiency Services Ltd

5^th & 6^th Floor, Core-III, Scope Complex, 7 Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110003

Email: info@eesl.co.in,  Website: www.eeslindia.org