Tesla commissioned a 129MWh project in Southern Australia in a record 100 days. Rahul Walawalkar who visited the site recently shares his experience from the visit on this week’s episode.

After the success of driving down the LED prices and scaling up its manufacturing in India, Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) is now looking to create a market trigger in Electric Vehicles (EV) and energy storage. Neelima Jain shares the story of EESL and its plans for the future with Girish Shivakumar.

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In recent weeks, the Indian government’s ambitious electrification programme, Saubhagya has been in news, especially after the budget. The Indian government aims to electrify all households by end of 2018.

So what does electrifying a household mean? Does it imply that households have reliable electricity? These are questions that are not unique to India. Energy access for all is now a global campaign especially after the United Nations emphasized it in the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG No 7.

However, it seems measuring energy access is not as easy as it seems and the frameworks have been evolving over the years. On this episode, Mohua Mukherjee, an international energy experts joins Girish Shivakumar for a discussion to talk about a new multi-tier framework.

On this week’s episode, we feature the discussion on ‘The paradox of electricity surplus co-existing with access deficit in India: Implications and way forward’ hosted by the Prayas Energy Group at the Girish Sant Memorial event.

Urj Moto differentiates itself from the competition by focusing on delivering electric mobility solutions for fleet operations and claims to have a reliable battery temperature management unit as its USP. It was one of the finalists at the Startup event held at Energy Storage India conference earlier this year. On this episode Dr John Mathew from Urj Moto joins Girish Shivakumar for a conversation.

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Dr Solanki is the brainchild behind the Million Solar Lamp initiative. He currently runs the Solar Urja through Localisation for Sustainability (SoULS) programme. On this podcast, you’ll listen to Girish Shivakumar interviewing Dr Solanki who shares the success story of million lamps programme and more.

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Make in India is one of the flagship programmes of the current Indian government and there is an increased emphasis to roll out electric vehicles manufactured in India. The government agency which is the implementing arm of the Make in India program is Invest India and on today’s show Manuj Khurana from Invest India shares his views and experience in dealing with different stakeholders who are in the transition towards the roll out of electric mobility on a freewheeling chat with Girish Shivakumar.

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Hero Future Energies (HFE) is one of India’s leading renewable energy project developers with over a GW of solar and wind assets. Girish Shivakumar interviews Sunil Jain, CEO of HFE and discusses the company’s future plans, building India’s first solar-wind hybrid project and his outlook on India’s RE sector and its targets.

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