Sahyadri Industries bags two awards
Sahyadri Industries Ltd. bags award for the “Best Performing Windmills” second year in a row

Pune, 2009: The 550-crore, Pune-based Sahyadri Industries Ltd, recently bagged two awards for the “Best Performing Wind Mills of the member companies” for the years 2006-07 & 2007-8 at the 13th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Indian Wind Power Association which was held at Hotel Jennys Residency in Coimbatore.

They have won these prestigious awards in the sector comprising of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and MP for two consecutive years 2006-07 and 2007-08. These wind mills of the German based Enercon GmbH were the first massive machines of 600 KW to be installed in India way back in 2001 with the latest gearless wind turbines technology.

The awards were received by Mr. Satyen. V. Patel, Director, Commercial and Mr. S.U Joshi, Director at the hands of the honorable Chief Guest Dr. Pramod Deo, Chairman, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, New Delhi. Also present on the occasion were Guest of Honour Shri Prasad R. Menon, Director of Tata Power, Mumbai, Shri Mahesh Makhija, VP (Renewables) CLP Power, Ahmedabad, and other prominent luminaries from the power generation fields.

Sahyadri Industries Ltd., are having around 42 wind mills with a generating capacity of 33MW's of electricity located in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. The group is also into real estate development.