Themes in this post: Residential solar | Commercial & industrial rooftop solar | Agricultural consumers Anyone who uses power (and that’s pretty much everyone, isn’t it?) can use solar power, in theory. But, given that the structure of solar power…
Investors & Financiers in Solar
Themes in this post: Banks | Other FI investment | Development finance | Equity finance | Other financing Early in my work in solar power, I remember meeting Pashupathy Gopalan (popularly known as Pashu), who was then the CEO…
Pioneers & Startups in Solar
Themes in this post: Prominent pioneers | Solar startups | Drop-outs I have been highly fortunate as I started working in the solar power sector right from the start. This early involvement gave my team and me many opportunities to…
Manufacturers in the Indian Solar Power Sector
Themes in this post: Solar PV value chain | Upstream manufacturing | Solar cell & panel makers | Solar panel component makers | Balance of system makers | Vertically integrated companies Way back in 2010, I was asked to speak…
Developers & Installers
Themes in this post: Developers | Installers Perhaps the first prominent solar power plant developer I actually met face to face was Inderpreet Wadhwa, founder of Azure Power. A suave chap sat next to me at a conference in Delhi…
Power Companies in Solar
Themes in this post: Power generation | Power transmission | Power distribution The entire value chain of power generation to electricity reaching your home or company has three stages: Power generation Power transmission Power distribution Power generation sector is easy…
Government’s role in Solar
Themes in this post: Central & state governments | Solar sector policies | International Solar Alliance “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.” These are the words that most businesses dread – anywhere in the world. Private…
Who’s Making It Happen?
Themes in this post: Government | Power companies | Corporates | Small businesses | Manufacturers | Installers | Startups | Investors It was sometime in 2010 and in a spacious auditorium in Delhi. This was the first ever large meeting…
Solar is more than what you think
Themes in this post: Power vs heat | Centralized vs distributed | Grid-connected vs offgrid | With vs without batteries | Solar thermal Most of you would have seen solar panels on rooftops or images or videos of large-scale solar…
The Power of Solar
Themes in this post: Modularity | Scalability | Ease of installation | Affordability | Maturity | Mother source If you had been at Cape Canaveral in the US on 17th March 1958, you would have witnessed a spacecraft weighing just…