Vivaan Solar

Vivaan Solar is a solar power company headquartered in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh India. Founded by two like minded professionals, Amit Bansal and Mudit Garg in 2012. It has grown from 3 MW started in 2012 to close to 100 MW in 2018.^[4] The company designs, engineers and builds turnkey solar photovoltaic projects ^[5] The most prestigious order executed by the company is the installation of solar modules at 4 railway station in New Delhi including New Delhi Railway Station, Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station, Old Delhi Railway Station and Anand Vihar Terminal Railway Station.installing 1.1 MW, 0.6 MW, 2.2 MW and 1.1 MW respectively.^[6] The company has won several other government projects of importance apart from projects from private sector.Also included is a 1.5 MW solar power plant for Bangalore City Railway Station ^[7]

Expansion

Vivaan Solar is a sister concern of Banco Group which has more than four decades of experience in infrastructure sector. The group has presence in renewable power with solar energy and hydropower as mainstays. Company has installed solar parks across Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka, Uttrakhand and other states. Further growth for the company is expected from a meager start of 3 MW to 500 MW in future, as the company wants to make full use of government plans to have a total 100 GW of installed solar power capacity by 2022. The company was set up to make full use of favorable investment opportunities associated with solar power generation. Vivaan Solar, as an independent power producer and EPC player in the solar energy sector, is looking to expand into Resco mode grid-connected projects.^[8] The company has since then implemented SCADA to regulate power output parameters.^[9][10][11]

Projects

In 2017 Vivaan Solar became a major player in India, as the company not only bagged several prestigious solar power generation projects but also completed several other rooftop power project. Apart from the 4 railway station rooftop solar projects in new delhi that was inaugurated by the then union minister for power Piyush Goyal. These projects are expected to help save hundreds of tonnes in carbon emission^[12][13] Its largest project till date is the 45 MW solar park in Kadodiya village, Ujjain district in Madhya Pradesh.^[14] Among other projects executed or won by the company include a 50 KW project for VISM group of institution of Gwalior and 1.5 MW rooftop solar project in Jhansi Junction railway station.^[15][16]

Recognition

In 2017 Vivaan Solar got SP 1A rating, the highest rating possible from SMERA, a pan India based rating agency .^[17][18]

New Initiative

As part of new initiative Vivaan Solar launched ‘My Vivaan App’, a mobile app in support of the Digital India initiative in 2018. The application makes its solar power consumers empowered, by allowing thjem to accurately monitor the various aspects of the solar power plants installed at their location and get reports and analytics to end users in an easily understandable form. The app available on the web, Android and iOS platforms can be beneficial for setting up photovoltaic solar panel based power projects. The app is designed for both registered and non-registered users. USP of the app is that it allows users to monitor multiple projects in one application alongside easily assessing O&M reports that include billing history, energy consumption details, and maintenance reports.^[19][20]

See also

• Solar power in India

References