Adani Group /PNG, CNG, EV Charging Case Study #FuellingGoodness
Utilities

Fuelling Goodness

How technical sustainability data across seven Adani businesses was translated into public narrative—connecting infrastructure activity to everyday human meaning.

Client Adani Group
Scope Consumer Communications
Businesses Adani Total Gas, Adani TotalEnergies E-Mobility Limited
Recognition ESG Initiative of the Year — ET Energyworld
81% App adoption
47M+ Total reach across platforms
4% Average engagement rate
7 Business units aligned under one narrative
SDG Aligned to UN Sustainable Goals

Decarbonisation is measurable for engineers. Invisible for everyone else.

Across ports, renewable energy, city gas distribution and transmission, Adani Group businesses were making significant environmental progress. The investments were real. The impact was measurable. But for public audiences, the communication was largely technical, disclosure-driven and impossible to relate to.

Terms like emissions reduction, net-zero commitments and energy transition carried precise meaning for investors and policymakers. For communities living near these operations, they meant nothing. Without translation, sustainability risked being perceived as corporate reporting—something companies say, not something they do.

"People trust sustainability not when it is claimed, but when they can understand how it affects their lives."

Different stakeholders needed different things from the same message: investors needed disclosures, policymakers needed compliance signals, communities needed visible impact, and media needed accountability narratives. The communication was failing all of them by trying to speak to none of them specifically.

From reporting to human relevance.

The core strategic move was to stop treating sustainability as data to be disclosed and start treating it as impact to be explained. This required a shift in both framing and language—applied consistently across seven business units with different audiences and different tones of voice.

Before
We installed 2.3 GW of solar capacity
Emissions reduced by X metric tonnes
Net-zero commitment by 2050
Energy transition infrastructure
Efficiency improvement programs
After
Energy sufficient for 30,000 homes — clean
Cleaner air for the cities we operate in
Building the infrastructure your children inherit
Gas that replaces coal in your kitchen and city
Less waste, more reach — infrastructure that does more

Technical inputs. Human outputs.

The most important communication discipline was converting infrastructure metrics into consequences people could picture. Rather than leading with generation numbers, capacity additions or reduction percentages, every piece of communication was reverse-engineered from a human question: what does this mean for someone living near this project?

Technical input
"1 kW of solar capacity installed"
Public communication
Energy sufficient to power a family home for a year—without a single gram of CO₂
Technical input
"City gas distribution network expansion"
Public communication
Fewer trucks, less smoke, cleaner air—piped gas replacing cylinders across your city
Technical input
"Efficiency improvement at port operations"
Public communication
India's trade moving faster, with a lighter footprint on the coastline it crosses
Technical input
"Net-zero commitment by 2050"
Public communication
The infrastructure we build today is designed for the India your children will live in

Short-form & campaign video reels.

Multi-platform storytelling bringing the green energy and emissions reduction efforts to life across digital channels.

#WinderfulLife | Adani Green Energy
#GlobalWindDay | Adani Green Energy
iCan — Reduce Emissions
#GeneratingGoodness — Adani Green Energy

Three pillars. Seven businesses.

The work was structured around three communication workstreams, each addressing a different dimension of the sustainability story across all business units.

01
Environmental Responsibility
Translated renewable energy and city gas transition into relatable public language. Connected project-level activity to air quality, climate and community benefit across AGEL, ATGL, AEL and AESL.
02
Community Participation
Communicated the Greenmosphere initiative—plantation drives, school sustainability programs and energy audits—as shared public action rather than corporate CSR.
03
Cross-Business Alignment
Reviewed and aligned sustainability messaging across all seven business units. Ensured language, tone and narrative were consistent at group level while remaining authentic.

Aligned UN Sustainable Development Goals:

SDG 7 — Clean Energy
SDG 11 — Sustainable Cities
SDG 13 — Climate Action
SDG 9 — Industry & Infrastructure
SDG 17 — Partnerships

The campaign that made renewable energy visible.

Greenmosphere—Adani Total Gas's Low Carbon Society initiative—was the most visible expression of this communication strategy. Renewable energy projects are massive but invisible. For most citizens, renewable energy lives as a policy concept, not a lived experience.

Greenmosphere was built as a translation project. Rather than communicating megawatts and capacity additions, it spoke about air, community, future generations and everyday life. It reframed environmental responsibility from a corporate claim into a shared community effort.

"ESG Initiative of the Year — ET Energyworld Annual Gas Conclave. Recognised at one of India's leading energy sector forums."

Reach, engagement and narrative shift.

Content Performance
14M+
Views across sustainability content with 47M+ total reach.
Narrative Alignment
7
Business units aligned under one coherent narrative spine.
Industry Honor
1st
ESG Initiative of the Year award at ET Energyworld Gas Conclave.

"Infrastructure companies don't just sell products—they must justify their existence socially. This was legitimacy communication at national scale."