Bosch Energy plans to tap healthcare and hospitality business

Technology and services major Bosch India’s Energy business has announced plans to partner with the healthcare and hospitality sectors to push its energy and heating solutions business by providing sustainable water heating and energy solutions to hotels and hospitals.

Bosch India Sales Director (Energy) Venugopalan C M, on Tuesday, told Deccan Herald, “Healthcare and hospitality spaces require electricity in very high capacity on a day-to-day basis. Besides, there is also a requirement of hot water on a regular basis. Bosch’s solar water heating solutions (flat plate collector and evacuated tube-based heater) and energy solutions (solar photovoltaic system) will be introduced in select properties in future.”

Venugopalan hinted that Bosch has already roped in 4-5 hotel properties (mostly Indian chains), which will have the company set up its water heating solutions in them by the first quarter of the coming year.

“On the healthcare front, we have spoken to a few well known hospital groups across India to cater to their hot water requirements, apart from energy needs,” he said, however, not revealing further details.

As a pilot project for the hospitality sector, Bosch on Tuesday inaugurated its first solar water heating product, a flat plate collector, at Novotel Bengaluru Tech Park.

Joint initiative

A joint initiative between the Novotel, Bosch Thermotechnology and the German Energy Agency - Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena), the project boasts of an installed capacity of 12,000 litres, out of the total requirement 34,000 litres of hot water, whose heating was earlier done using diesel fuel.

“The installation to set up a facility on this scale costs around Rs 40 lakh, which is borne by the hotel, while we provide expertise, maintenance and service for a period of five years,” Venugopalan said.

The company has already provided water heating solutions of 18,000-litre capacity for Maruti Suzuki at Manesar, in the latter’s workers quarters. It will also look at malls and infrastructure facilities such as airports, besides housing.

“We are looking at sustainable and customised solutions for housing... people interested in setting up their own photovoltaic system at home, over and above their consumption, can now do so under new government rules. Here, the surplus power will get pushed back into the grid, for use elsewhere, for which the people with (photovoltaic) systems at home will get paid,” Venugopalan said, adding that the project, already successful in Kerala, involves installing a customised power-pack kit of 1 KW-5 KW on the roof of a house, in order to set the system in functioning mode.

“Karnataka is one of the first states to implement such a distributed energy consumption model, and we are keen on driving it,” he said, adding that this will ensure that electricity is be more equitably distributed.
DH News Service