VIT-AP University to collaborate with EESL to promote energy efficiency on campus

VIT-AP University connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) announced its program to collaborate with Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a Central Public Sector Enterprise nether the Union Ministry of Power, to beforehand vigor ratio and sustainability done a "Smart Sustainable Campus Initiative.”

The announcement was made during the ongoing Energy Conservation Week (March 10-14, 2026) astatine the VIT-AP field successful Amaravati.

Vice-Chancellor P. Arulmozhivarman said the assemblage wanted to enactment with EESL to make innovative and cost-effective energy-efficient technologies that could payment society. He said VIT-AP intended to alteration its field into a exemplary of sustainability portion encouraging students to actively enactment successful clime enactment initiatives.

"We privation to person our pupil assemblage of astir 20,000 students into “Champions of Climate Action,” enabling them to lend to solutions addressing clime change,” helium said.

Key initiatives projected nether the concern see transforming the field into a ‘’Smart Energy Campus'’ utilizing astute meters, IoT-based monitoring systems and AI-driven vigor absorption technologies. The program besides includes LED retrofits, energy-efficient electrical systems, rooftop star installations, astute thoroughfare lighting and waste-to-energy biogas plants.

The collaboration besides proposes establishing a "Centre for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability" to beforehand probe successful astute grids, artificial quality successful vigor systems, greenish buildings and c monitoring technologies. Students volition payment from internships, vigor audit projects, probe opportunities and clime champion programs aimed astatine gathering industry-ready sustainability professionals.

National Adviser for Government Affairs and Media, EESL A. Chandra Shekhara Reddy said the inaugural could importantly accelerate the adoption of precocious technologies for vigor efficiency. He conveyed a connection from the EESL CEO Akhilesh Kumar Dixit, highlighting the value of corporate efforts to code clime change.

Convenor of Energy Conservation Week Y.V. Pavan Kumar, erstwhile ISRO idiosyncratic K. Jayaraman, Managing Director and CEO of Efftronics Systems Pvt. Ltd., Mangalagiri, Dasari Ramakrishna and respective different experts were contiguous connected the occasion.