Emerging Tech Radio

Val Miftakhov, Founder & CEO of ZeroAvia, shares about their first successful test flight of a commercial grade electric plane based on hydrogen fuelled powertrains - that moves the possibility of zero emission flight closer to reality.

Also get ready to be a part of the Global marathon event & expo on the ‘’World Energy Storage Day’’ on 22nd September.

Mr Ajay Kochhar; Co-founder, President and CEO of Li-Cycle Corporation talks about the circular economy of batteries and shares insights on a unique process that allows for the recovery over 95% of all battery-grade materials found in li-ion batteries and how do they manage to recycle any kind of li-ion battery, irrespective of the battery chemistry, previous application, form factor, and size.

Also for the global insights on the policy, technology and business landscape on ESS & EV, tune in for The World Energy Storage Day on 22nd September!!

Mr Alok Nanda, CEO for GE India Technology Center & CTO of GE South Asia shares insights about GE’s first largest global lab outside USA – John F Welch Technology Center, Bangalore. With 3800 plus total patents & contributing to many bests in class products by GE; JFWTC is a power-house of talented pool of people. According to Mr Nanda, government should trust industries and provide funding for industry led research, to come up with the cutting-edge world-class technology from India.

Mr R Chellappan, Founder & Managing director SWELECT (earlier Numeric Group) shares his 35+ years remarkable journey of building strong establishment of Indian manufacturing setup & going beyond Indian boundaries. He talked about state-of-the-art solar module manufacturing facility and the quality product manufacturing which is in line with Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. He also talked about the competition with imported solar PV modules & recommended some policy changes around promoting manufacturing in India. His advice to start-ups working in hardware sector is to try to get into complex power converter modules. Listen in the full interview.

Mr Prasanna Patwardhan (CMD, Prasanna Purple Mobility & President BOCI) shared his experience about operating electric buses in two cities and India’s first Inter city Electric Bus. He talked about some of the challenges with financing & infrastructure availability.  According to him, Economic case for EV adoption for buses is already strong if the per day driving distance is around 400KM and above. He sets the vision to operate electric buses wherever it makes economic sense.

With COVID-19, automotive industry has received a major jolt and new car sales over past 3 months have dropped sharply around the world. As we start the recovery from the lockdown, response of users could shape the way EV landscapes evolves in India over next year. Mr O P Agarwal, CEO, WRI shares his perspectives on Clean mobility mission along with Clean Energy mission in India, on the background of COVID-19.

IESA is working on launching virtual accelerator, so that we can provide regular mentoring and hand holding support to the start-ups. Would you like to join select pool of mentors or early investors?

India's grid successfully managed the load drop of around ~31 GW on 5th April at 9pm for 9 mins. Mr B B Mehta, Chief Engg, Gujarat SLDC shares the insights about planning & execution of this nationwide integrated operation.

He also shares learning from the event. With the growing penetration of renewables, grid operators need new tools to ensure reliability and improved power quality. Important point from the conversation is Balancing is very important element of the grid to maintain the grid discipline. Energy Storage technologies should be considered in support of dispatching the renewable, not in terms of penalties.

Today the utility industry is facing unprecedented challenges managing the grid supply-demand equation with drastically reduced demand, due to COVID-19 lock down situation. They have financial, operational and social challenges to manage. Listen how BRPL & BYPL are prepared to face the challenges.

Dr Kale, Director of Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (CMET), Pune shares insights about areas of R&D activities at the centre. He shares focus areas of Center of Excellence including Indigenous Cathode & Anode material for lithium batteries, flexible & stretchable batteries, indigenous battery fabrication machine building and solid electrolyte for fast charging. CoE is formed to support Make In India mission. He said that scientists at CMET work on social demand and would like to work with industry & help industry to take the technology to wider section of the society.

As a part of Skill Development activity, IESA is conducting India's first hands on workshop for lithium ion cell fabrication in India in association with CMET.