Goodricke Group Ltd. has been awarded a CST & Solar Cooker Excellence Award for effectively using a CST system for process heat application in their industrial establishment at Aibheel, West Bengal.
CST, Concentrating Solar power Technologies is a technique that uses different mirror configurations to concentrate the sun’s energy onto a receiver, the solar energy is then converted into thermal energy. The Instant Tea Plant at Aibheel uses the thermal energy to pre heat water and reduce dependence on coal.
The award was received by Mr. Atul Asthana, Vice President of Goodricke Group Ltd presented by Shri Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister of Power, Coal & NRE, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India on 29th April 2016 in New Delhi.