Company Profile: Tata Group
We Mean Business coalition
Tata Group is one of India’s largest and most diverse conglomerates, with annual revenues of over $110 billion. The group has more than 30 companies, employing over 700,000 people, operating in over 100 countries across a wide variety of sectors including steel, power, automobiles, chemicals, hospitality, consumer businesses, information and communication technology.
Commitments
- Tata Power has a target of achieving 40% of its power generation through non fossil sources by 2025. It has also committed to stop building new coal-fired power plants going forward.
- Tata Chemicals has a goal to make a 20% reduction in the carbon intensity of all its products by 2020 and is committed to setting a science-based target with the Science Based Targets initiative.
- Tata Motors has a target to be 100% renewable by 2030 and 50% by 2022, with RE100.
- Tata Steel has set an ambitious target to be the global benchmark for steel in terms of CO2 emissions – <2tCO2/tcs – by 2025.
- Tata Housing has taken target to abate the carbon footprint of previous year by 10% year on year.
- Tata Communication aims to be carbon neutral by 2022, including sourcing 100% renewable energy.
- Tata Sons Limited is committed to improving water security, reporting climate change information and responsible corporate engagement in climate policy, through the We Mean Business coalition’s Take Action campaign.
Emissions reductions
- While Tata Motors’ electricity consumption increased by 3.3% in 2017-18, indirect (Scope 2) emissions decreased by 2.1% on the previous year due to the increase in the share of renewable energy – from 16.3% to 20.76%.
- Tata Motors’ energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity per vehicle produced decreased by 5.9% in 2017-18, from the previous financial year – to 4.91 GJ/vehicle and 0.71 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) per vehicle, respectively.
- In 2017-18, Tata Motors’ energy reduction initiatives resulted in 86,086 GJ of energy savings and 18,378 tCO2e in emission reduction, thanks to fuel use optimization and electrical energy-saving measures.
Renewable electricity
- In 2017, Tata Motors sourced 20.8% of energy from renewables (up from 16.3% in the previous year) thanks to direct procurement from offsite grid-connected generators (PPA), purchase from onsite installations owned by a supplier, and self-generation.
- Tata Motors now has total renewable energy installed capacity of 6.11 MW of solar power at five of its manufacturing sites and 21.95 MW of wind power at Pune.
- Tata Power’s current renewable capacity stands at 3,417 MW (32% of total installed capacity). This will grow to 12,000MW by 2028, the company says.
- Tata Power’s Clean energy portfolio grew by 8.8% to 3,417 MW from 2017 to 2018.
Electric vehicles
- Tata Motors is committed to low-carbon vehicle development. The company invested US$350 million in research and development in 2017 and has launched Tata EVision, an electric concept car.
Cost savings through decarbonisation
- Tata Power Solar increased its revenues by more than two and a half times in just two years, with profits increasing 330% during 2017.
Impact areas
- Tata Power installed Mumbai’s first EV charging station at Vikhroli, in 2017. This was followed by further installations which helped make the city ‘EV Ready’.
- Tata Motors’s wide ranging CSR programme benefited 380,000 people across India, including malnourished children, those looking for work and needing education. 40% of the 380,000 people helped are in the country’s poorest communities.
- In 2017-18, Tata Motors’ total water abstraction decreased by 7.9% from the previous year, largely due to fixing underground water leakages in plants, an increase in rainwater harvesting facilities and effluent recycling. Also, 9.5 m3 of water/vehicle was used – down from 11.31 m3 water/vehicle the previous year.
Unique innovations
- Tata Steel Europe is working with other steelmakers in Europe on a major research and development project, ULCOS (ultra-low CO2 steelmaking), to develop breakthrough technologies which can reduce the CO2 emissions produced per tonne of steel by at least 50%.
- Tata Motors launched India’s Starbus Electric and the Starbus Hybrid buses.
Leadership
- Tata Power’s Green Community campaign focused on ‘Reverse Parenting’ where the children are encouraged to spread awareness and engage their families and society at large to save energy.
- Tata Steel’s ‘Greenfection’ initiative is designed to spread the message of ‘green’ from person to person exponentially.
- To mark World Environment Day, Tata Motors runs more than 570 workshops across India, offering free pollution check camps to all passenger vehicle customers.
Sources
Tata Motors Sustainability Report 2017-18
Tata Power Sustainability Report 2018
Tata Chemicals Sustainability Report 2017-18
Tata Steel Sustainability Report 2017-18