PROTECTING NATURE
HELPING COMMUNITIES
We are determined to be a catalyst for change to protect our planet. We work with the communities around us and try to nurture the rich natural resources surrounding us. Our commitment to sustainable development guides us at every step.

6.3 Mn

HOUSEHOLDS
ELECTRIFIED

17 Mn

TONS OF CO2 AVOIDED

165+

VILLAGES
IMPACTED

SOCIAL INITIATIVES

Greenko is committed to practical and sustainable advancement in all areas of prevalence as part of being accountable towards our economic, environmental and social responsibilities. Social Responsibility is at the heart of our activities, we, therefore, conduct our business through standard partner engagements bringing about comprehensive development both socially and environmentally.

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Renewable energy major Greenko group has unlocked global supply chain network to airlift critical oxygen support systems to India.The first of the five dedicated cargo planes landed in Hyderabad today with 200 large medical grade oxygen concentrators with 10 liters per minute capacity to aid in India’s fight against the deadly second wave of infections.

KT Rama Rao, Telangana Industries Minister along with Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, Greenko Co-Founders Anil Chalamalasetty and Mahesh Kolli were present at the arrival of the cargo flight. Anil Chalamalasetty said, “This is first of the five dedicated cargo planes we are bringing in through the strong global supply chains that we have set-up in the last two weeks. Within the next 5 days, four more dedicated aircrafts will land in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and New Delhi with 1,000 such large medical grade oxygen concentrators."

"This will aid our medical teams in tier 2 and tier 3 cities for pre-ICU support and post-ICU stabilisation of patients and help combat the second wave of CoviD that has put severe strain on our healthcare infrastructure and support systems. We will continue our work to help the country and aid the efforts to fight the pandemic and have India again breathe freely.” Rama Rao thanked Greenko founders for their effort, and said, “Our first priority is to provide relief to the patients and avert this oxygen crisis as prudently and judiciously as we can. We are indeed grateful to the Greenko group for helping us in these efforts.”

Additionally, 1000 large oxygen cylinders of 50 liters capacity each are in transit from West Asia to be delivered in the coming week to India. These systems will be deployed as stationary units in existing hospitals, healthcare units and mobile units to cater to the additional case load of oxygen deprived patients. “As a country, we have been fortunate to receive critical monetary and non-monetary support as aid / donations, but we need to focus on establishing strong robust supply chains for mission critical equipment and supplies locally and globally. These supply chains that we at Greenko Group have established are capable of delivering 5,000 plus concentrators and cylinders continually which will hopefully help India in fighting the pandemic and breathe freely again,” Anil Chalamalasetty said.

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Our prime objectives to provide access to quality education in government managed schools located in the neighbourhood communities. This is achieved through a meaningful and fruitful dialogue with the Government run schools to bring about sustainable awareness & improvement among students. For the year 2017-2018, we have provided the school authorities with equipment for science/computer labs, and other basic infrastructure items. About 1058 children from various schools have benefited from our educational initiatives and school support, that are located around our Greenko projects and plants. Key areas of intervention include

1) Appointment of school teachers for the upper primary school.
2) Providing infrastructure like benches, printers and inverter etc.

Community skill development program - Recognizing the need and urgency, National Institute of Solar Energy(NISE) has launched Suryamitra Skill Development Program in collaboration with State Nodal Agencies at various locations across India. Under this scheme, Greenko has introduced a Solar Skill Development Certification Program for 280 ITI students of the local communities in Kurnool cluster at Ghani Solar Park with a vision to enhance their skills for employability. Greenko has provided employment to over 100 trainees of Suryamitra Skill Development Program.

Skill Development

Recognizing the need and urgency, National Institute of Solar Energy(NISE) has launched Suryamitra Skill Development Program in collaboration with State Nodal Agencies at various locations across India. Under this scheme, Greenko has introduced a Solar Skill Development Certification Program for 280 ITI students of the local communities in Kurnool cluster at Ghani Solar Park with a vision to enhance their skills for employability. Greenko has provided employment to over 100 trainees of Suryamitra Skill Development Program.

Health Care
Our objective is to bring quality and specialized healthcare to the communities close to our operating plants as well as Greenko projects across the country. To provide access to quality health care, we have organized free general medical camps and eye camps at some of our plants located across India in association with local hospitals. We have been organizing these camps at least once in a year at our operational plants. A total of 2097 people participated in these medical camps and benefited from the free diagnostic, treatment and free medicines services. A notable achievement is the Diagnostic, Screening and Treatment (DST) Eye Camps conducted at our Hydel Plants in Himachal Pradesh.
1. Health Camp at Hatkoti Site
2. Eye checkup camp at Palampur Cluster
3. DST Eye Camp
Village Development

We initiate rural development programs in consultation and coordination with local panchayats. Based on the inputs received from the local stakeholders we design our interventions for rural development projects. After assessing the various short term and long term needs of the local communities, such as:

1. Clean drinking water
2. Availability of infrastructure like roads, street lighting, sanitation facilities etc.

Health & Safety

The nature of our operations demands a strong focus on the health and safety of our employees. We aim to regularly enhance our internal safety systems through functional & behavioural training and safety awareness programs, to sensitize our employees about the criticality of safety measures. We have implemented an effective Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) governance by focusing on the core areas as described below.

1. We train our employees/workers regularly to enrich safety awareness and ensure safe working environment at all work locations.

2. We conduct relevant training programs for the executives to enhance their knowledge and skills.

3. We have made a list of Training programs to be conducted in a Calendar Year and provided relevant "Training Modules" to the Executives so as to enable them to organize the training programs in an effective manner.

4. In addition to this, we have circulated soft copies of "Animated Safety Videos" to site teams to be used as resources for the training sessions. Some of our regular in-house training programs are on:

a. GIMS policy, Procedures, code of conduct, EHS Orientation & Toolbox talks.
b. Behaviour Based Safety
c. Office Safety & Ergonomic Safety
d. Road Safety (Two / Four-Wheeler)
e. Electrical safety
f. ERP Heat Stress Management
g. Fire Safety & Housekeeping
h. Awareness on First Aid Treatment
i. EHS Aspects and Impacts
j. Conservation of Resources

ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES

Greenko Group is driven towards contributing to the National issues and to ensure that the group’s activities respect, promote and advance internationally recognized environmental principles & commitments, Greenko has put in place Greenko Integrated Management Systems (GIMS) and corporate EHS functions. For the purpose of monitoring, we have put in Environmental management systems and have also gotten Greenko projects certified under ISO 14001:2015 standard for "Operation and Maintenance" activities.

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Greenko has become signatory to “The Climate Pledge” today and is joining more than 200 companies who have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040. Today’s announcement responds to the findings of the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which underscores the need for increased urgency in addressing the climate crisis. Unless there are immediate, rapid, and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5 degrees Celsius or even 2 degrees Celsius will be out of reach.

Businesses have long contributed to the effects of climate change, but deep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases could stabilize increasing temperatures. This is why urgent, ambitious action by companies around the world is needed. The 200 plus Climate Pledge signatories, which have committed to net-zero carbon by 2040 or sooner, are uniquely positioned to rise to the challenge of addressing climate change and helping to create the low-carbon economy of the future.

The current Climate Pledge signatories are expected to collectively mitigate 1.98 billion metric tons (BMT) of carbon emissions from a 2020 baseline, representing 5.4% of global annual emissions —demonstrating the collective impact The Climate Pledge is having in addressing climate change and prompting more action to tackle the climate crisis.

Signatories to The Climate Pledge agree to:

● Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis.

● Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies.

Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets to achieve net-zero annual carbon emissions by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement’s goal of 2050.

“As a leading renewable energy company with an operational portfolio of 7.5 GW and a pipeline of 15 GW of wind, solar, hydro, and energy storage assets spread across 15 states in India, Greenko is proud to be joining The Climate Pledge and making the commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040 — 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Greenko will continue to build upon its hallmark of environmental stewardship, through greenhouse gas mitigation, climate risk management, conservation and restoration of habitats, as well as circular economic approaches,” said Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty, Founder, CEO and MD, Greenko Group.

Biodiversity

Greenhouse gases contribute to the acceleration and aggravation of climate change and its impact. Thus, as responsible businesses, we monitor and make efforts to reduce the GHG emissions from business operations. The conference of parties (COP) to UNFCCC have agreed on limiting the global temperature rise to below 1.5-2°C compared to pre-industrial temperatures. Traditionally, economic development has been closely correlated to a higher energy consumption and therefore the increase in GHG emissions. Building a de-risked portfolio of wind, solar, hydropower and clean energy assets within India, Greenko intends to increase its installed capacity for integrated renewable energy by developing greenfield assets and thereby reduce the GHG emissions.

Biodiversity
The group has till date registered 21 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects with UNFCCC. These include 5 biomass, 13 hydro and 3 wind power projects, generating a total of 15,90,560 Certified Emission Reductions. We have estimated our CO2 emissions from our operations following the standard of Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) and using the emission factors provided by the IPCC as a reference. In addition to its contribution to CDM projects, Greenko has generated over 8.5 billion units of clean energy thereby avoiding approximately 6.9 million tonnes of CO2.
Waste Management

Greenko Group's management of wastes is based on its Environment and Social Management System that establishes practices to meet the legal requirements along with reducing or avoiding generation of wastes and to reuse or recycle whenever possible. The system governs identification of the waste streams, their classification, manner of collection, transport and appropriate final disposal. Greenko carries out continuous monitoring of generation, storage and allocation of wastes from its contractors and vendors alike. The group conducts an Environmental Education Program for employees and partners, which includes raising awareness about environmental issues, with a focus on reduction, reusing and recycling of waste.

Biodiversity

Most of our plants are located and designed to use water from surface water sources. As water is critical to the environment in Indian geography, water management is very critical and material to our operations. None of our plants/projects create any significant water stress in the areas where we operate.

Water management initiatives
1. Sprinkler & dripping system has been installed and maintained in the power house and staff quarters
2. RO plant waste water is reused for gardening purpose
3. Rain Water Harvesting System - All the Rainwater is diverted through drains to rainwater collection pit and that water is reused for gardening purposes.

Biodiversity

Greenko Group believes that the absence of absolute scientific certainty should not be a reason for postponing effective and economically viable measures to prevent the threat of serious or irreversible damage to the environment or to human health in the procedures for prior license, installation and operation. The Group is cognizant of the importance of native flora and fauna population in the areas adjoining the Greenko project. Greenko carries out Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) study prior to the commencement of any operations, in line with the requirements of ten Equator Principles; eight International Finance Corporation (IFC) Social & Environmental Sustainability Performance Standards (PS); and IFC Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines for Renewable Energy Projects.

We have been investing towards environmental conservation/ protection initiatives in the following areas:

1. IMS Certifications (EMS, OHSAS, QMS)
2. Environmental education and training
3. Green Purchases
4. Preservation of Biodiversity
5. Environmental Monitoring Equipment
6. Impact Assessment Studies

Great Indian Bustard

Greenko group has submitted a plan to the forest department to adopt the Rollapadu bird sanctuary and will begin the work very soon. The conservation project, besides other things, would involve:

1. Development of infrastructure for habitat & species conservation
2. Habitat improvement program 3. Reduction of man-animal conflict by Crop compensation 4. Publicity, Education, Nature Camp program 5. Eco-Development 6. Promotion of Ecotourism
Disentangling the Sea Turtles

Greenko Group has partnered with WWF-India to “Protect our Ocean Health and Biodiversity from Marine Debris”, with a focus on conservation of the Olive Ridley turtles along the coast of India. The project covers three coastal states, namely, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Goa. The project aims to mitigate threats to marine turtles from entanglements in fishing nets with support of fisher communities & through advocacy at a government level. The fisher community is being engaged through workshops and awareness drives to adopt sustainable fishing practices. Consequently, an incentive mechanism will be established to encourage their participation in adopting better practices to reduce turtle bycatch in trawlers and handling of ghost nets.

The activities under the project will be carried out under two broad objectives:

1. To reduce impacts of ‘ghost’ fishing gears on threatened species including Olive Ridley turtles
2. To reduce sea turtle bycatch in trawl fishery along the coast of Andhra Pradesh
Tree Transplantation

Trees are a crucial part of our ecosystem, and play a vital role in maintaining the biodiversity of an area. In order to facilitate the construction of Ghani Solar Park on a large scale, Greenko has adopted the latest technology to conserve trees within the project sites. The trees were taken out from project site and replanted at planned locations and along the roads within the project site. The average age of the trees replanted is above 50 years.

We have adopted the following steps during the process of transplantation.

1. Soil sampling and site selection
2. Root pruning and tree packing
3. Transplantation of trees
4. Mechanical support and root pruning
5. Post-transplantation treatment

STATUTORY CLEARANCES

Greenko MP01 IREP Environmental Compliance December-2023

Greenko AP01 IREP Environmental Compliance Report December-2023

Greenko Soalr Energy Pvt.Ltd Environmental Compliance Report December-2023

Greenko AP01 IREP Environmental Compliance Report June-2023

MP30 Gandhi Sagar Forest Clearance Stage-II

Saundatti IRESP - Environment Clearance

Greenko AP01 IREP Environmental Compliance Report December-2022

Greenko AP01 IREP Environmental Compliance Report June-2022

Greenko AP01 IREP Environmental Compliance Report December-2021

MP 30 Gandhi Sagar PSP - Environmental Clearance

Pinnapuram PSP - Environmental Clearance