ITC  Limited has recently commissioned its second offsite solar plant in Karnataka. The plant, located in the Davangere district, has a capacity of 9.45 MW. It is ITC’s fourth offsite solar plant in the country, with similar units earlier built in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.

ITC target to meet 100% of electricity requirements from renewable sources by 2030 as a part of its ambitious Sustainability 2.0 Vision. In FY 2023-24, over 50% of ITC’s total energy requirements were already met from renewable sources such as solar, wind and biomass. Total energy includes electrical energy as well as thermal energy.

The offsite solar plant in Davangere district is expected to generate around 15 million units every year, providing green energy to the company’s numerous facilities in the state. These include the Company’s hotels such as ITC Gardenia and ITC Windsor, its R&D facility in Bangalore (the ITC Life Sciences and Technology Centre), foods manufacturing units including two large integrated facilities in Mysore and Malur, agri product processing factory, warehousing and logistics facility as well as ITC Green Centre in Bangalore.

Sivakumar, Group Head of Agri, IT Business and Sustainability at ITC Ltd, said, “In line with ITC’s Sustainability 2.0 Vision, it has been our endeavour to accelerate efforts in decarbonisation. Expanding our renewable energy footprint has been one of the key pillars of our low-carbon growth strategy.”