Energy security is a key factor in the sustainability of an energy intensive manufacturing process. Tokyo Cement Group pioneered renewable energy generation in the local corporate sector with the setting up of Sri Lanka’s first-of-its-kind 10MW biomass power plant in 2008 in Trincomalee. This power plant enabled us to earn 43,000 Carbon Credits per annum by the UNFCCC.
We were also the first to develop Sri Lanka’s first and only large scale Dendro power plant with a capacity of 6MW in 2014 in Mahiyangana. This plant supplies directly to the national electricity grid, illuminating the lives of over 30,000 rural households.
With the addition of another 8MW capacity biomass power plant at Tokyo Eastern Cement Factory in Trincomalee, Tokyo Cement Group became the single largest contributor of renewable biomass energy in Sri Lanka with a total installed capacity of 24MWh of electricity.
Under its Community Trade sustainable fuel-wood tree planting program, the project has so far planted over 6 Million Gliricidia trees in the surrounding areas of the three power plants, in Mahiyangana and Trincomalee, to ensure a continuous fuel supply. This ensures the money spent otherwise on fossil fuel imports, gets channelled to the resource lacking rural economy of Sri Lanka.
The project uplifts the livelihoods of nearly 2,500 farming families, creating nearly 500 direct employment & over 1000 indirect employment opportunities, for the rural farming communities.
Currently holding a total capacity of 24MWh of Renewable Green Electricity, we contribute 60,000 MW/h annually to the national grid.
In addition to making our entire local production process 100% energy independent, these efforts have enabled us to reduce our carbon foot print to a mere 100,000MT CO2 per year.
