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“           Waltersmith is aligned with the Paris Climate





                               goals of action to reduce emissions and

                             achieve Carbon neutrality by 2040, while

                               growing the world's energy demand by

                                changing the Energy mix aggressively

                                           towards renewable sources

                                                            of energy
                                                                               ”


                   Waltersmith Ugamma Power Company will            commissioning of our Industrial and
                   deliver up to 300MW of power by 2030 to an       Innovation Park in line with SDG 9 –
                   Eco Industrial and Innovation Park and will      Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure.
                   also supply power to our immediate
                   communities and the National grid. Through       In line with SDG 11, our planned ECO
                   our gas business, we will be replacing oil       Industrial Park will be fully powered by
                   products like diesel, kerosene and coal          solar energy (with minor support from Gas
                   (which the communities predominantly use)        power and only during downtime of the
                   with gas. This is in line with our focus on SDG   solar plant) and will minimize industrial
                   7 –Affordable and Clean Energy.                  waste by the co-location of industrially
                                                                    symbiotic manufacturers (waste from one
                   Our Energy Transition plan involves the          manufacturer as energy feedstock for
                   gradual replacement of the 300MW Gas to          another) to further reduce our carbon
                   Power systems with 1000MW of Solar Energy,       footprint. We are starting the transition
                   with an attendant inflection point in CO2         journey by pursuing our Gas to Power
                   emissions in 2028, driving down rapidly to       projects and ensuring that all our
                   Zero emissions by 2030 when we transit from      Community Projects (Schools, Hospitals,
                   an Energy producing company to a                 Markets, Agriculture, Water supply systems
                   Manufacturing Conglomerate, with the             etc.) are powered by Solar power systems.

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