JLanka Power & Energy wins Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award 2016

Next generation energy solutions specialist JLanka Power and Energy Ltd was recently honoured for their responsible entrepreneurial achievements, under the Green Leadership Category judged on criteria of solution oriented, integration, innovation, results and sustainability at the Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Awards held in Singapore.

The Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Awards program (AREA) recognises and honours Asian businesses for championing sustainable and responsible entrepreneurship in several categories.

The awards programs demonstrate the participants’ leadership, sincerity and on-going commitment in incorporating responsible and ethical values, legal compliance, respect for people and individuals, involvement in communities and protection of the environment into the way organisations run their businesses. The Awards are an extension of founding pillars of Responsible Entrepreneurship and Investment in People and forms part of Enterprise Asia triangle of Responsible Entrepreneurship; Environment, Community and People.

Dulan Sampath (System Design Engineer), Maduka Ariyasiri (Senior Technical Officer), Nalin Karunasinghe (Consultant), Romello Pietersz (Manager- Business Development) and Hasitha Dinumpura (Electrical Engineer).

Since 2009, AREA has been hosted regionally, namely for the South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia chapters awarding companies for their respective nations. In 2015 Enterprise Asia had embarked on a more inclusive AREA 2015 chapter awarding the best CSR programmers from the whole of Asia. The Ceremony sees to hundreds of attendees, including business and government leaders, diplomatic representatives, social and community leaders, local and international media. This year the awards ceremony was held on the 24th June 2016 in Singapore.

JLanka Power & Energy has   done energy management projects in   many industries and several government and domestic sites. Energy accounting using the   ePRO1000 will show usage patterns, and   identify wastage and   over- expenditure. These data   will enable   the   consumer to track energy usage, which can lead to more prudent   and efficient usage of energy. The  main aim of  the  project  is to establish a  system that  has total  control   of  monitoring of  all  electricity  related  activities to  make  it  real   “the  smart city   concept”. When  it  comes to  smart city  concept  there  must be  a  perfect   system with proper  coordination  of   “Smart   Buildings, Smart  Grids  and Smart Vehicles.” This special ePRO100  Smart Meter has  the  ability  to emerge and  convert a  home or office to  become a  ‘Smart Home’ or ‘Smart  Office’ as   the   technology  develops. This   ePro1000 ‘Smart  Meter’ is  said  to  be  country’s first   ever  ‘Internet of Things’ Product,  related  to electricity.

Annual  world consumption of  energy  is  said to be equivalent  to  over 11 billion  tons   of  oil  in  fossil   fuels.  Crude oil reserves are depleting at a rate   of 4 billion   tons   a year.  If we carry   on at this rate, known oil deposits will be gone within the next century. Reserves of oil, natural gas, coal will last another 40, 60 and  200 years respectively.  It  is  therefore important  that we should find  alternative sources of energy and  adopt better energy management.  The   first  step  of  energy management and  saving is to track, monitor and  control  consumption.