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Andhra Pradesh won the archetypal prize successful Group-II — States with full last vigor depletion betwixt 5 and 15 Million Tonnes of Oil Equivalent (Mtoe) — of the National Energy Conservation Awards for the 4th consecutive year, according to a property merchandise by Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand.
He said that the State got the designation for its committedness and the results achieved by it successful implementing vigor conservation and ratio schemes successful buildings, industry, municipal, agriculture, DISCOMs and transport sectors.
Andhra Pradesh emerged arsenic the apical performer by scoring 89.25 points successful the State Energy Efficiency Index (SEEI) - 2025 against 87.25 successful the SEEI–2024.
APSPDCL CMD L. Sivasankar was nominated to person the grant connected behalf of the AP State Energy Conservation Mission (AP-SECM) from President Droupadi Murmu, astatine Vigyan Bhavan successful New Delhi connected December 14 (National Energy Conservation Day).
The Chief Secretary said Andhra Pradesh stood astatine the forefront astatine the nationalist level successful executing its vigor conservation strategy done comprehensive, scalable, and impactful programmes, and by ensuring practice betwixt each the authorities departments concerned, consumers, and stakeholders.
The government’s cardinal initiatives towards achieving the goals see the Integrated Clean Energy Policy, the AP Industrial Development Policy 4.0 (2024–29) and sector-specific policies for MSMEs, electronics, and nutrient processing.
Significant advancements were made successful enforcing the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), implementing vigor ratio projects successful schools, hospitals and ITI colleges, and introducing precocious technologies successful MSMEs, Mr. Vijayanand added.
In her message, AP-Genco MD and SECM CEO S. Nagalakshmi thanked BEE for its enactment and collaboration, portion acknowledging the contributions of Industries, Transport, Housing and Roads & Buildings departments and the DISCOMs.
