# What is the carbon footprint of the Ramnagar plastics cluster?

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About 20,000 tonnes of CO2 a year at today's factors. TERI's 2016 profile of the Ramnagar (Chandauli) plastic cluster puts its roughly 52 units at 2,860 toe a year: 27.8 million kWh of grid power, 452 kilolitres of diesel for DG sets and 36 tonnes of LPG. Pipe and fitting units use over 60% of it.

## The cluster

- About 52 plastic units employing about 600 people.
- 22 sack and bag units, 20 pipe and component units, 10 masterbatch units.
- Electricity from PUVVNL is about 84% of energy; diesel runs DG sets through frequent power cuts.

## Energy by segment

- Pipes and fittings: 1,755 toe.
- Sacks and bags: 450 toe.
- Household items: 220 toe.
- Others: 435 toe.

## Where savings are

- Radiant barrel heater bands: 20 to 30%.
- VFD on extruder motors: up to 20%.
- VSD on bobbin winders in place of eddy current drives: 50 to 60%.
- Servo motors on injection moulding hydraulics: about 30%.

## Cluster CO2 at current factors

- Electricity: 27,800,000 kWh x 0.675 kg = 18,765 tCO2.
- Diesel: 452,000 litres x 2.645 kg = 1,196 tCO2.
- LPG: 36 t x 2.985 tCO2 per tonne (IPCC: 63.1 tCO2/TJ x 47.3 TJ/Gg) = 107 tCO2.
- Total: about 20,068 tCO2 a year; electricity is 94% of it.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads PUVVNL bills and diesel invoices into monthly kWh, litres and CO2 per unit, so one unit can compare itself with the cluster.

- [Your MSME carbon number](https://senseible.earth/msme-carbon-number)
- [Grid electricity factor](https://senseible.earth/emission-factors/grid-electricity)
- [LPG emission factor](https://senseible.earth/emission-factors/lpg)

Sources: [TERI and SAMEEEKSHA, Cluster profile: Ramnagar plastic industries](https://sameeeksha.org/pdf/clusterprofile/Ramnagar-Plastic-Industries-Uttar-Pradesh.pdf), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2, Chapter 2: Stationary combustion](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/pdf/2_Volume2/V2_2_Ch2_Stationary_Combustion.pdf)

Last reviewed 2026-11-02.