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Introduction
The GSMA Development Fund launched the
Green Power for Mobile (GPM) Programme
in September 2008 to extend mobile
beyond the grid through the promotion of
renewable energy technologies and energy
efficient base stations. The programme is
supported by International Finance
Corporation (IFC).

The telecom sector in India has witnessed unparalleled growth

by global standards in the last decade and continues to be one of
Indias biggest success stories. The Indian mobile industry is one of
the largest markets today in terms of subscriber base1, experiencing
growth of an additional 10 million subscribers every month in
2010, albeit very low ARPU (~EUR 2.40 per month), and significant
churn rates. Due to favourable market conditions and the attractive
renewable solution business case for telecoms, most of the telecom
vendors now operating in India propose, in their portfolios, solar or
wind tailored solutions.
This document presents a summary of the current state of the
Indian Mobile Telecom Market, an overview of the use of renewable
energies for the mobile infrastructure and a listing of the main
vendors/ESCOs operating on the Indian market. This analysis is
based on current knowledge of the Indian Market as well as publicly
available information from vendors, tower companies and mobile
operators.

1 KPMG report published association with the Department

of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India and
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI) in December 2009

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The India Mobile Market

Figure 1: Mobile Connections Growth in India (in million connections)

India remains a dynamic market

900

The country in divided into 23 telecom circles which have been

classified into 4 categories: Metros, Category A, B and C. The metro
circles cover very dense population centers in the very largest Indian
cities: Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. The A, B, and C circles cover
various geographic territories of varying population sizes. A circles
are the largest in terms of population coverage. C circles contain the
smallest population.

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The market is highly competitive with each telecom circle having 7-8
operators. Within the metro category, penetration rates are reaching
over 100% making these areas of the market almost saturated. However,
there is still great potential in other categories, particularly B and C, for
further penetration and an increased subscriber base as these customers
lie predominantly in off-grid and rural areas. Today the mobile market
in India continues to be one of the most dynamic markets worldwide,
with a growth rate of close to 45% in 2010 (Year on Year). At the end of
2011, the GSMA estimates there were 853,202,221 mobile subscribers in
India which represents a market penetration of 72.23%2. This is close to
the average mobile market penetration in the Asia Pacific region which
is currently 73.70%3.

700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

Mobile Subscribers
Source: Wireless Intelligence

By the 2nd Quarter of 2012, the total mobile subscriber base is expected to reach
over 1 billion, driven by a rise in the demand for communications from semi-urban
and rural India. With 70% of the Indian population living in rural areas, there is a
major divide in mobile ownership between urban and rural areas. It is certain that
rural markets will be the next key growth driver for the Indian telecom sector given
the growing population and disposable income of rural India. This untapped rural
market is estimated at 400 million people4 , who live in areas covered by a GSM
signal but who do not own a mobile phone.

2 Wireless Intelligence 2011

3 Wireless Intelligence 2011
4 Wireless Intelligence 2011

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The main barriers to an enhanced mobile adoption are:

Figure 2: Blended ARPU Decrease in India (in EUR)

Mobile network coverage could be improved: while the percentage

of the population covered by mobile networks has been steadily
growing since the early 2000s - to up to 75% of the population5
today certain areas lack reliable coverage and mobile users have
sometimes to travel outside of their residential neighbourhood to
make phone calls

Poor electricity grid reliability: A lot of rural inhabitants do not

have access, or only have unreliable access, to the electricity grid,
preventing them to fully charge their phone.

In a country where 25% of the population lives below the poverty line ,
the cost of mobile phone ownership remains too high for the lower part
of the population

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Challenged however by falling ARPUs

Revenues of the Indian telecom industry were estimated at US$26
billion in 2008 and are projected to reach US$45 billion by 20127. The
latest blended ARPU available (2011) is estimated at EUR 2.408, one
of the lowest worldwide - over the past 4 years, ARPU values have
decreased by half. However, this decrease in ARPU is mitigated by
the overall growth of the subscriber base, contributing to a steady
revenue growth. Together with this, declining tariffs are compensated
by an increase in the Minutes of Usage (MoU). India also has one of the
highest Minute per User rates per month in the world - 343 minutes in
20119.

0
2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

ARPU
Source: Wireless Intelligence

5 GSMA -2010 Based on coverage maps published by mobile

operators
6 GSMA -2010 Based on coverage maps published by mobile
operators
7 UN data 2010
8 Consulate General of India in San Francisco
9 Wireless Intelligence 2011

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15 Mobile Services Providers operate in India

A major share of the wireless market is currently being held by private
players such as Bharti Airtel Limited, Reliance Communication,
Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Aircel and Tata Indicom. The share of the
private sector in total telephone connections grew to 82.3% in December
2009 from just 5% in 1999. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(TRAI) has actively contributed to the overall competitive landscape in
the mobile market by encouraging the entry of new players, which has
resulted in a total of 15 mobile service providers operating in India.

Figure 3: Mobile Operators Market Share in India (4Q2010)

Aircel (Maxis)

6.8%

Airtel (Bharti Airtel)

16.6%

BSNL
Cheers Mobile (Etisalat DB)

0.9%
2.8%

20.0%

Idea Cellular
Loop Mobile
MTNL
MTS (Sistema Shyam TeleServices)

11.0%

Ping Mobile (Quadrant Televentures)

11.3%

0.3%

Reliance Communications
S Tel

16.7%

Spice Telecom (Merged Q1 2010)

11.0%

Tata Teleservices
Uninor (Unitech Wireless)
Videocon Mobile

0.2% 1.2% 0.7% 0.4%

Source: Wireless Intelligence

Vodafone (Vodafone Essar)

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The Tower Outsourcing model

With the rapid growth of the Indian wireless market, initiatives such as
network cost optimization, outsourcing of non-core activities, as well
as low-cost business models have been in focus. Operators have been
realizing efficiencies through extensive outsourcing across the telecom
value chain. By separating infrastructure elements, such as towers,
into separate entities, significant investments have been preserved,
and the Indian mobile industry and its customers have benefitted from
the sharing of passive infrastructure, reducing the cost burden of each
operator and speeding the rollout of mobile services. India has now
become a leader in sharing network infrastructure. As network costs
typically represent between 15% - 25% of OPEX and 75% - 80% of
CAPEX, the benefits of network sharing are obvious. Today, the
tower industry continues to grow supported actively by the
Government in India10.

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As of August 2010, there were around 390,000 towers across India. However,
this number may come down if the anticipated consolidation takes places
among the telecom operators to share the same towers. Average Tenancy
Ratio is estimated to 1.5511.
Figure 4: Telecom Tower Companies Market Share in India (2010)
0.9% 3.8%
2.3%

Tower companies formed through joint ventures like Indus Towers

Limited; joint venture between Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and
Idea Cellular

Tower companies formed though de-mergers such as Bharti Infratel

and Reliance Infratel, which are wholly owned subsidiaries of Bharti
Airtel and Reliance Communications respectively

Independent tower companies such as GTL Infrastructure ltd

Indus Tower Limited (ITL)

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
Reliance Infratel Limited (RITL)

9.5%

Viom Networks Limited (VIOM)

32.2%
9.7%

Bharti Infratel Limited (BIL)

GTL Infrastructure Limited (GTL)
American Tower Company Limited (ATC)
Tower Vision India Limited (TVIL)
Others

11.2%

Telecom tower companies in India could be segmented into 3 types:

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15.2%
15.2%

Source: ICRA Research and GSMA based on vendors

The expected growth in this sector is about 50,000 towers per year for
the next 3 years beyond which GSMA believes a saturation point will
be reached (i.e. all viable locations will be covered). In fact, most of
these new towers would be located in rural areas where energy supplies
(both electricity and fuels) are in short supply. To meet these as well as
other challenges, the passive infrastructure companies and suppliers
are increasingly turning to Green Technologies either to make power
available in a location where this is a challenge or to make existing
towers in rural areas become more efficient.

10 Recent online article published in Sept 2010

11 GSMA based on vendors information - Tenancy ratios
are expressed as a fraction of total number of operators
sharing towers/total number of sites present.

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Figure 5: Percentage of electrified rural households per district

Energy landscape
According to the Planning Commission of India statistics, the overall
electrification rate in India is about 63%. Urban areas in India are
typically very well connected to the electricity grid, even though they
experience frequent power outages. Rural households, on the other
hand, suffer from low electrification levels and according to the data
from the Ministry of Power, Government of India (as described in the
Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana, RGVVYs documents),
about 44% of rural households in India are electrified.
The Southern and Western parts of the country, in addition to some
Northern states such as Punjab, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, have
higher electrification rates (>80%) than most Eastern states such as
Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand and North Eastern states such as Assam and
some Northern states such as Uttar Pradesh. According to the RGGVY
documents referenced earlier, the five states in India with the least
village electrification levels, which depend on the number of villages
with at least a single electricity connection (typically for public use
such as lighting and water pumping), are Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar
Pradesh, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, with less than 75% village
electrification levels. Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, along with
Assam and Orissa, also feature in the list of states that have the least
household electrification levels in India, less than 20%. The following
map12 presents the regional electrification per district:

Electrified households per district

only rural households
0-10%
11-25%
26-40%
41-55%

56-70%
71-85%
86-100%
No data

Calculations based on NSS data, round 55 (year 1999-2000)

12 Kemmler Andreas, Centre for Energy Policy and

Economics, Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology,
Regional disparities in electrification of India do
geographic factors matter?, 2007

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Today, the opportunity to use renewable energy to power base stations is
increasing thanks to several factors. The key reason for the rapid expansion
in the Indian market is the move into lower margin rural markets as a way to
increase subscribers, as average revenue per user has dwindled over the past
few years in more mature markets13. Furthermore, the recent solar feed-in
tariffs created by the Indian government is raising awareness across the
country of renewable energy solutions for electricity demands, though the
impact of the programmes on the telecom base stations remains limited.
Another important difference in the Indian market compared with other
off-grid mobile telecom markets, is that the mutualization of power
sources at the tower site, using renewable energy solutions in this case,
is economically more attractive when the infrastructure is shared by
multiple operators. Tower companies can install solar sites with loads in
the 5-6kW range and still make the systems economical for customers.

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By interviewing a number of tower companies, it was found Indus

Towers plans to set up 2,500 solar powered sites by end of 2011
and Bharti Infratel will rollout 1500 solar powered sites in a similar
timescale. Other Indian telecom companies expect to deploy renewable
energy sources as well. Viom Networks, which currently runs more
than 38,000 towers, expects to operate a large number of their off-grid
sites using solar power. American Tower Corporation ran pilot tests in
Pune, Maharashtra and was able to reduce its monthly costs of diesel
generators by half in that area.
Solar power solutions enjoy a strategic advantage over wind turbine
technology in its ability to be deployed with a less onerous and
technical pre-feasibility analysis requirement compared to wind.
Existing solar maps provided by sources such as NASA are precise
enough to predict solar resources to ensure sites are economically
viable. Moreover, most parts of India receive good solar radiation (4-7
kWh/sq.m) therefore allowing solar solutions to champion the reduced
consumption of diesel and kerosene for lighting and power generation.

Today, 60% of the power required for telecom towers in India is met
by diesel generators. Consuming more than 2 billion litres of diesel per
year, Indias Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has asked telecom
companies to consider cleaner, more efficient alternatives and ways
to cut their dependency on conventional fuels. 14 Renewable energy
offerings include solar panels, wind turbine technology, biomass and
fuel cells. The most common technologies being used to supply off-grid
BTS currently are solar and wind, with solar being the more prevalent
technology.

13 GPM Energy Service Company (ESCO) & Vendor

Research Energy Efficiency Finance Corp October
2010
14 http://energyefficiency.coolerplanet.com/
News/2011032401-indias-telecom-industry-pushesgreen-energy.aspx

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Figure 6: Solar Radiation in India

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Fuel Cells solutions are also being field tested in India by some
Telecom Tower companies. If this technology appears attractive, cost
reduction still remains a major hurdle to a bigger scale implementation.
Figure 7: Green sites deployment in India

106
5349

Uzbekistan

Uttar
Pradesh
Rajasthan

4426

China
7795

Afghanistan

39623

Iran

Gujarat

Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistand

262

Pakistan
5

Nepal

1072

Bhutan
Bangladesh

Madhya Pradesh

144

87

304

28

Laos

India

Orissa

921

14

kWh/m2
6.6-6,4

Andhra
Pradesh
2300

289

6.4-6,2
6.2-6,0
6.0-5,8

Sri Lanka

5.8-5,6

Karnataka

5.6-5,4
5.4-5,2
5.2-5,0

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5.0-4,8

Source: Green Power for Mobile

4.8-4,6
4.6-4,4

Source: MNRE

Wind power solutions are not implemented as frequently in the Indian

subcontinent as there is limited opportunity due to average wind
speeds being deemed very moderate, bordering on impractically low.
Sites with average wind speeds in excess of 3m/s may possibly be
considered with an additional wind generator, but a lower limit of 5m/s
would increase the likelihood of achieving more than 1kWh per day. At
10m/s, the entire system load could be handled by wind power alone,
but significantly less than 10% of Indian sites are expected to have such
favourable wind resources available. 15

At the end of 2010, the Green Power for Mobile programme estimated that
India accounted for around 921 sites operating on renewable energies16,
with many more sites planning to be deployed in the next months.

15 Source VNL White Paper The Solar Imperative

16 Numbers of green sites is constantly updated and dependant
on the public aspect of site deployments

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Vendor/ESCO Landscape
The listing we are providing below summarises the main vendors
active in the Indian market. At the top of the vendors list 17 are Moser
Baer (who has their own turnkey BTS division), Reliance Solar, Tata BP
Solar, Nokia Siemens Networks, ACME Tele Power and Applied Solar
Technology. These companies are well positioned to take advantage of
the rapid expansion of the off-grid telecom markets in India.
Bharti Infratel, for example, has already installed 750 solar sites and is
expected to deploy an additional 1500 over the next two years. These
sites are being developed using Applied Solar Technologies (AST) as
the preferred ESCO. A number of the other tower companies in India
also seem to be looking to use ESCO models.
Multinational companies noted that gaining traction in the Indian
market has been difficult because of domestic Indian companies having
local advantage due to their familiarity with the tower sharing model.
The recent merger between Bharti Infratel and Zain suggests that the
tower sharing model will gain market share in Africa as a number of
companies are investigating this model.

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Table 1: India Telecom Vendor Listing

Company
Core Competencies
Artheon Electronics
Energy Storage
Coslight India Telecom
Energy Storage
Luminous TeleInfra
Energy Storage
Prudent Energy Corporation
Energy Storage
DESI Power
Biomass
Next Gen PMS
Biomass
Husk Power
Biomass - Rice Husk
Flexenclosure
Community Power
AirLiquide/Axane
Fuel Cell
Electro PS
Fuel Cell
Cascadiant/Idatech
Fuel Cell
Mahindra Powerol
Gensets
Bhaskar Power
Gensets
Pace Power
DC generator
Altobridge Picocell
VNL Picocell
Emerson Network Power
Power Equipment
Qowisio
Power Resource Management
Apollo Solar
Solar
Applied Solar
Solar
Indo Solar
Solar
KMR Energy
Solar
Moser Baer
Solar
Reliance Solar
Solar
Sun Edison
Solar
Tata BP solar
Solar
Vikram Solar
Solar
XL Telecom & Energy
Solar
Delta Group
Solar Inverter, Panel, Wind Turbine
BS Transcomm
Solar, Wind, Smart Energy meter
ACME
Telecom Equipment
Alcatel Lucent
Telecom Equipment
Ericsson
Telecom Equipment
Huawei
Telecom Equipment
Nokia Siemens Network
Telecom Equipment
Power Oasis
Telecom Equipment
Luminous Renewable Energy Solutions (former UD Energy)
Wind Solar Diesel Intelligent Hybrids
Bergey WindPower
Wind Turbine
Unitron Energy
Wind Turbine
Zephyr Corporation
Wind turbine

17 No quantification and market shareW of each vendors

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The Artheon group encompasses several

companies in the field of Telecom, Information
Technology and Renewable energy.

Artheon Battery Company Pvt. ltd, located

in Nashik (130Kms from Mumbai), will
manufacture a complete line of lead-acid
batteries serving both the domestic battery
markets in India and the export markets
around the world.

Artheon Electronics
ARTHEON ELECTRONICS LTD. one of the flagship company
of the Artheon group company in India is setup as a
professional supplier and manufacturer of VRLA Batteries,
to provide their customers with stable high quality batteries
and extremely efficient power solutions.

Project Locations
India

Latest Press Releases

January 2010 - Artheon Group announces JV
with NorthStar Battery.
Artheon Group (Artheon) India, NorthStar
Battery Company (NorthStar) of Sweden
and the MTS Group USA are pleased to
announce they have entered into a jointventure, Artheon Battery Company Pvt. ltd, to
manufacture and market storage batteries.

Company
Artheon Electronics
S-34, Okhla Industrial
Area, Phase-II
New Delhi-110020

Website
artheonelec.com

Officials at the companies say the new

venture will combine the industry-leading
manufacturing and technology capabilities of
NorthStar, and the distribution and service
capabilities of Artheon across India. Together,
the companies will create a leading-edge new
player in the Indian battery markets.

Email
[email protected]

Telephone
+91-11-40516480

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Coslight Telecom India

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As one of the Top 100 Electronic Enterprises

in China, the Group now has 21 subsidiaries
such as Harbin Coslight Storage Battery Co.,
ltd. and Harbin Coslight Power Co., ltd., 13
overseas subsidiaries or offices in Russia,
Germany, Britain, Italy, Turkey, the United
States, Canada, etc. and a postdoctoral
workstation and an institute.

Project Locations

Coslight Telecom India

COSLIGHT TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LTD.
was established in 1994, and listed at Hong Kong United
Stock Exchange in 1999, is specialist of storage solutions
and batteries.

Global

Latest Press Releases

Not available

The company is a Global approved Vendor for

VODAFONE and their products are supplied
for various Telecom Projects across the globe.

Company
Coslight Telecom India
212, TIME TOWER, M.G.
ROAD, SEC.-28, Gurgaon
- 122001, Haryana, India

Website
http://coslightbattery.
en.busytrade.com/about_
us.html

Email
[email protected]

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Luminous Teleinfra ltd

Luminous Teleinfra Limited, founded in 2008, manufactures
deep-cycle telecom batteries, power management
units, and power conversion devices and solutions for
telecom operators.

The company was founded in 2008 and is based

in Manesar, India. Luminous Teleinfra Limited
operates as a subsidiary of SAR Group.

Project Locations
India

Latest Press Releases

July 2010 - Luminous Teleinfra launches
VRLA batteries for Telecom cell sites
Luminous Teleinfra ltd which is part of the SAR
Group launched deep cycle VRLA batteries
for Telecom cell sites. Taking into account the
fast-growing economy that works 24x7 in, there
has been a growing need for a highly reliable
and virtually maintenance free power backup solution that meets the expectations of the
subscribers of telecom network operators,
said Mr. Rakesh Malhotra, Founder & CEO.
According to Luminous, the VRLA batteries
provide reduced cost of ownership and usage
as well as offer highest energy storage in a
small footprint.

Company
Luminous Teleinfra ltd
Plot No. 121, Sector - 5,
IMT Manesar, Manesar,
122050

Website
luminousteleinfra.com/

Telephone
+91 12 4463 3500

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Prudent Energy Corporation

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The VRB can be described in several ways.

It is:

Product and Service Description

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Prudent Energy Corporation

Prudent Energy, a leading clean energy company, is the
designer, manufacturer, and integrator of the patented
Vanadium Redox Battery Energy Storage System
(VRB-ESS) a large-capacity energy storage system
delivering high performance with low operating costs.
The Vanadium Redox Battery (VRB) is a patented
advanced energy storage system that is safe,
environmentally friendly and operates at the lowest
cost of any flow battery technology.

 An electrochemical system that efficiently

converts chemical energy to electrical
energy, and vice versa, based on the
reduction and oxidation of different forms
of the element Vanadium.
 A flow battery that rapidly charges
and discharges, offering unlimited deep
cycle capability.
 An on-demand energy storage system
where:
a) T
 he electrolyte never wears out
and overall maintenance costs are
extremely low;
b) Energy (electricity) can be stored in
liquid form, at room temperature,
almost indefinitely;
c) O
 perators can easily add energy and
power in modular fashion over time.
d) It can be charged and discharged to any
state of charge with no adverse effects on
life cycle.

Prudents 7kW-rated units are sold separately

(on a containerized basis or otherwise
depending on customer needs) for use at
telecom base stations in remote areas around
the world. These small systems have been
proven reliable and high-performing in over
20 installations in North America, Europe
and Africa.
Conventional VRLA battery systems used
in telecommunication cell sites are designed
to act as backup devices for infrequent,
short power interruptions per year.
However, Prudents enhanced kW-class,
8-hour maximum deep cycling storage system,
now in its third generation, allows off-grid or
weak grid telecom sites to cycle repeatedly
or integrate in hybrid form with diesel,
wind, or photovoltaic generation. VRB-ESS
units operating in Africa typically deliver an
attractive two-year payback by reducing O&M
costs and extending diesel engine life.

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Financial Savings

Geographical Footprint

Client Listing

Typical opex savings on an off-grid site running

24 hour per diesel generators is 50%. Total
Cost of Ownership saving over 4 years is
35% compared to conventional VRLA battery
storage systems.

Global, off-grid and poor grid installations.

kW-Class (VRB kW-Class) Projects

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Application

Region

Telecom service provider

Turkey

Telecom service provider diesel usage reduction/ green off grid cell sites

East Africa

USA installations at various sites (extreme conditions) and on islands

USA

UAE telecom application off grid diesel reduction

Middle East

Commercial end user PV integration

China

Italian Energy services provider integrated with PV. Peak shaving

Italy

Telecom service provider weak grid support

Hungary

Korean clean tech research university

Korea

Green Energy services provider integrated with renewables

Slovakia

Telecom off-grid service provider integrated with PV

India

Company
Prudent Energy
Corporation
7200 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 1002
Bethesda
MD 20814
USA

Website
www.pdenergy.com

Email
[email protected]

Telephone
1-301-825-8910

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DESI Power

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The company has built an innovative model

around providing villages with cheap,
biomass-based energy generators that employ
local residents and supply them with a stable,
predictable means to pump water and charge
batteries for basic appliances.

Using renewable resources to run these power

systems, Desi power systems currently provide
energy services to villages, small businesses
and educational institutions. DESI Power is part
of the Smart Power for Environmentally and
Economically Sound Development (SPEED), an
initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation that was
initiated in 2008-09. SPEED aims to address the
needs of approximately one-third of the worlds
population that do not have access to electricity
(1.6 billion people). DESI Power has been working
with Bharti Infratel, Vodafone, Tata Indicom, Tata
docomo.

DESI Power
DESI Power is a startup aiming to establish itself as a
pioneer in BOP energy services for rural India.

The first DESI Power station was set up at

Orchha, Madhya Pradesh (India) in April
1996, as a joint venture between FREND a
Swiss non-profit organization that promotes
renewable energy and TARA. Together they
provided roughly 50% of the equity capital,
which was 25% of the total investment. The
plant was fabricated and commissioned by
Netpro.
DESI Power is a decentralized energy system. It
is a state-of-the-art technology that converts
Biomass. The biomass is burned with limited
supply of oxygen to generate combustible gas
which in turn produces electricity.

Company
DESI Power
212, TIME TOWER, M.G.
ROAD, SEC.-28, Gurgaon
- 122001, Haryana, India

Website
www.desipower.com

Project Locations
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Latest Press Releases

Not available

Email
desipower@
airtelbroadband.in /
[email protected]

Telephone
+91-80-41328160

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Next Gen PMS

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NextGen has developed an in house biogas

technology for decentralized organic waste to
energy application, focusing on urban needs
of reliability, hygiene and aesthetic values.
The biogas plant can be designed to process
waste right from 25kgs/day to more than
50tons/day. The plant can take in variety of
inputs right from food waste to garden waste
to human waste. The gas so generated can be
either used to substitute LPG or can be used to
produce electricity.

Setting up biogas plants for rural telecom towers

will also encourage village-based entrepreneurs
who will be owners of the plants. The firm, which
won a business-plan writing contest, now has 13
employees, excluding Bajpai and Humbad.

Next Gen PMS

NextGen, incubated at NSRCEL, IIM-Bangalore and founded
in 2009, operates in two major domains - Emission
Management and Waste to Energy.

Around Rs. 50 lakh of its annual revenue last

year came from its biogas plant installations, a
technology it developed in collaboration with
IISc and BITS, Pilani.
NextGens plan is to use this technology to power
rural telecom towers. We have a 40% subsidy
from the government for capacity expansion
in rural areas and are in talks with telecom
companies to make it happen. They are very
interested, she says.

Company
Next Gen PMS
5, N.S.Raghavan Centre for
Entrepreneurial
Learning Indian Institute of
Management Bangalore
Banerghatta Road, Bangalore
560076 Karnataka, India

Website
nextgenpms.com/

Project Locations
India

Latest Press Releases

Not Available

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Husk Power

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

The for-profit social enterprise was started in

2007 by three Indians from the state of Bihar,
along with one American classmate from the
University of Virginias Darden School of
Business. It is this philosophy of simplicity
and corresponding success that has earned
them substantial investments from the Shell
Foundation and Acumen Fund and the prizes
of a host of social innovation business plan
competitions. Already 60 rice husk power
plants are up and running, serving 60 villages
and 150,000 people. Now there are plans to run
a Husk Power University and an international
franchising system. By 2014, HPS plans to
serve ~ 6,500 villages, save 750,000 tons of
CO2, create 7,000 local jobs and save $50M in
cash for over 5 million people by replacing
kerosene and diesel with its proprietary
renewable energy technology.

Project Locations

Husk Power
Husk Power Systems (HPS) is premised on a simple need for
electricity and a simple material discarded rice husks.

Company
Husk Power Systems Pvt.
ltd Opp. Shiv Mandir
Near National Seed
Corporation
Shastri Nagar Market
Sheikhpura, Patna- 800
014 Bihar, India

Website
huskpowersystems.com

India

Latest Press Releases

June 2011 - Husk Power Systems win
international sustainable energy award
http://www.business-standard.com/
india/news/husk-power-systems-win-intlsustainable-energy-award/138690/on
Shell Foundations Husk Power Systems has
won this years International Ashden Award
for Sustainable Energy. It was awarded at an
official ceremony in London on Thursday
night. Husk Power Systems (HPS) is a rural
electrification company in Bihar which
generates electricity through the gasification
of rice husk, an abundant agricultural waste
product found throughout Indias rice belt.

Telephone
+91 (612) 2283333

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Flexenclosure

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

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Flexenclosure develops and deploys modular

energy solutions that enable mobile operators
to serve old and new, often rural, markets
in an efficient and cost effective way.
Flexenclosures turn-key modular green
energy solutions are based on renewable
energy sources and are flexible, prefabricated,
adaptable to local conditions and quick to
install. Flexenclosures product range contains
solutions from power systems to complete
data centers.

emissions, by as much as 90 percent when

they are running on a 24/7 basis, and to
reduce energy related operating expenses
by over 80 percent. The ROI is high and the
long-term TCO low. This enables operators to
profitably roll out base stations in areas that
have so far been unprofitable to operate in
due to low average revenues per user, lack of
access to the electricity grid and high costs for
diesel fuel and maintenance.

Flexenclosure
Flexenclosure is a specialist provider of intelligent and
green site power management solutions that have been
especially developed for off-grid markets in developing
countries. The companys revolutionary E-site base station
site solution, with the Community Power option, has the
proven ability to bring both communications and power
to rural people in remote areas that previously had access
to neither.
Client List
Safaricom
Airtel
MTN
Emtel
Millicom

On E-site solution we believe the product is very good and a step in the right
direction in making GSM sites more power efficient. We particularly like the
intelligent power monitoring system and the innovation to have wind turbines
designed for telecoms. The great reduction in generator running hours is a
welcome move towards a green economy.
Samuel Mugo Kimani, HoD Regional NW Dep, Safaricom.

Product Description

E-site is an energy solution that enables base

stations to be powered mainly by renewable
energy (sun and wind). There is a battery bank
for storage of generated energy and the wind
turbines have been modified and perfected for
this particular purpose. The key ingredient is
Diriflex, the real-time control system used to
optimize the performance of the solution.
The E-site solution has proved to reduce
base stations diesel consumption and CO2

Company
Flexenclosure
Dubbgatan 2
SE-534 50 Vara
Sweden

Website
www.flexenclosure.com

Community Power is an E-site product

developed together with Ericsson. It also
comes as a standalone system. The system
provides the possibility to share the power
produced by E-site with the surrounding local
communities to power e.g. mobile and battery
chargers, street lights, clinics, schools etc.
The complete Community Power solution
allows for full integration with the operators
messaging and billing systems, including
central management of energy distribution to
local outlets and appliances based on end-user
energy purchases using their mobile phones.

Email
annlouise.johansson@
flexenclosure.com

Telephone
+46 702 260 774

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Air Liquide/Axane

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

Axanes versatile power sources, in a power

range from 0.5 to10 kW, offer a response to
these issues in terms of ease use, operability,
size, silence etc.

gaseous nitrogen for the new float glass plant

of Sezal Glass ltd. in Jhagadia, in Gujarat
(investment announced in January 2010)

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Air Liquide/Axane
Air Liquide is a major French company supplying industrial
gases and services to various industries including medical,
chemical and electronic manufacturers. Axane is a wholly
owned subsidiary of the AIR LIQUIDE Group whose mission
is to develop at a global level complete packaged systems
for the generation of energy from Fuel Cells powered by
hydrogen. Axanes market position in the area of hydrogen
energy solutions gives it penetration into different niche
markets, for which there is currently no satisfactory
alternative energy solution, such as portable power
generation, extended backup power, several industrial
applications and stand-alone power for remote sites etc.

December 2010 - Air Liquide Testing

Hydrogen in Base Stations in India

Project Locations
Global

http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/online/
news/articles/2010-12/Air-Liquide-TestingHydrogen-in-

Latest Press Releases

January 2011 - India: new developments in
the west of the country
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/
content/may2009/gb2009051_422522.htm
Air Liquide is announcing new developments
in the west of the country, in Gujarat and
Maharashtra. The total investment for the new
facilities and the supply chain amounts to
more than 40 million.
Air Liquide has commissioned a new state-ofthe-art Air Separation Unit (ASU) to produce

Company
Air Liquide/Axane
Air Liquide (Sige Social)
75, Quai dOrsay - 75 321
Paris

Website
http://www.axane.fr/
default_gb.cfm

The Telegraph (India) has published a press

release stating that Air Liquide will undertake
a pilot project with Bharti Airtel to run telecom
towers using hydrogen. In the first phase,
the French firm will test the technology with
10-15 base stations. The Indian government
Department of Telecom (DoT) is drawing up
plans to provide subsidies and incentives
to operators to switch to and use renewable
energy, including hydrogen, at base stations.
Some of the incentives could include a 30 per
cent subsidy on the total cost of making 200
towers eco-friendly.

Telephone
+33 (0)1 40 62 55 55

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Electro PS

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

ElectroPS already has a field-proven product

family of fuel cell systems for backup
applications covering the range from 1.5 to 12
kW. Their products have the largest installed
basis in Europe.

Congress 2010 in Barcelona and, after being

successfully trialled in Europe, Americas and
Asia, it is now ready to pave the way to fuel
cell adoption overall India.

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Electro PS
Electro Power Systems, founded in 2005 and based in Italy,
is an established player in the sector of fuel cell systems for
mission-critical backup power applications.

Project Locations
Europe, India, North America

Latest Press Releases

The trials, including those made in India,

proved that ElectroSelf generates significant
savings for operators and tower companies
while overcoming the problems related to
legacy solutions (i.e. fuel logistics, frequent onsite checks and heavy maintenance).

December 2010 - Electro Power Systems

officially launches in India ElectroSelf,
the first self-recharging fuel cell system for
backup power
http://www.electrops.it/pr_20101201.html
Electro Power Systems SpA is officially
launching in India ElectroSelf, the worlds first
entirely self-recharging fuel cell system for
backup power at India Telecom, New Delhi
(stand in hall 14). A preview of ElectroSelf was
presented in February 2010 at Mobile World

Company
Electro PS
Torino
Via Livorno, 60
10144 Torino
Italy

Website
http://www.electrops.it/
index.html

Telephone
+39 011 2258211

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Cascadiant/Idatech

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
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Project Locations

April 2010 - IdaTech And Cascadiant

Announce A Deployment Of Advanced Fuel
Cell Technology With Hutchison Telecom In
Indonesia

Cascadiant/Idatech
Cascadiant is a specialist of Fuel cell products. Partners
include Interop Technologies, Idatech, PowerOasis, Statmon.
Cascadiant is committed to providing operators with a full
array of energy solutions that allow their infrastructure and
network operations to reduce its carbon emissions and
footprint.

India, Asia Pacific

Latest Press Releases

June 2010 - IdaTech and Cascadiant Showcase
Backup Power Fuel Cells at CommunicAsia
http://www.idatech.com/
uploadDocs/061510CommunicAsia.pdf
IdaTech plc, a global leader in the development
and manufacture of clean and reliable
extended run backup power fuel cell products,
in conjunction with its partner Cascadiant
Inc., is pleased to announce its participation at
CommunicAsia.
Participating for the fourth year, IdaTech,
together with Cascadiant will promote its
next generation ElectraGen ME Fuel Cell
Systema five kilowatt fully integrated
solution that enables extended run backup
power for telecom base stations.

Company
Cascadiant/Idatech
Cascadiant Singapore
10 Anson Road, #21-12
International Plaza
Singapore 079903

Website
cascadiant.com
idatech.com

http://www.idatech.com/
uploadDocs/041410_IdaTech_Cascadiant_
Deployment.pdf
IdaTech plc (AIM: IDA) a global leader in the
development and manufacture of clean and
reliable PEM fuel cell products for critical
backup power markets, in conjunction with
its partner Cascadiant Inc. and Indonesian
wireless operator PT Hutchison CP
Telecommunications (HCPT), is pleased
to announce a deployment of the latest
generation of hydrogen backup power fuel cell
systems throughout the Indonesian island of
Sumatra.

Telephone
+65 6220 6418

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Mahindra Powerol

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

Their line of diesel generators offers electricity

backup to remote locations to power banks,
hospitals, schools, businesses, and industry.
Mahindra Powerol DG sets are provided to
Telecom majors like Airtel, Tata Tele, Vodafone,
Nokia, BSNL and MTNL who use the same
to support their communication networks
across India. Mahindra Powerol has recently
launched B100 bio diesel Generator Sets for
the Indian Market. The usage of bio diesel fuel
(as per IS 15607 2005) would be applicable
for all the current range of Mahindra engines
between 7.5kVA and 62.5kVA. Mahindra
Powerol plans to extend this to other range of
engines in the near future.

Latest Press Releases

23

Mahindra Powerol
Mahindra Powerol is providing power back-up solutions to
India that ensures an uninterrupted power supply for all the
critical sectors of the economy.

Project Locations
India, Middle East, Africa, Latin America

Company
Mahindra & Mahindra
ltd., Engine Application
Business (Powerol), Farm
Equipment Sector, Gate
No.2, Akurli Road,
Kandivali (East), Mumbai
- 400 101, Maharashtra

Website
mahindrapowerol.com

January 2008 - Launch of Indias 1st 100%

Biodiesel fuel genset
http://www.mahindrapowerol.com/Admin/
tmpupload/biodiesel.pdf
The Mahindra Powerol B100 Biodiesel Genset
uses an electronic controller which ensures
start and stop in diesel mode and switching to
biodiesel mode while running of the generator
set. Two separate tanks inside the generator
set ensure seamless switching between both
modes. The use of biodiesel fuel (as per IS
15607 - 2005) will be applicable for the current
range of Mahindra engines starting from
7.5kVA up to 62.5kVA. Mahindra Powerol
plans to extend this technology to its other
range of engines in the near future.

Telephone
91-22-6648 3051

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Bhaskar Power

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

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Development Fund

24

Bhaskar Power
Bhaskar Power is manufacturing gensets (over 28,000
gensets already installed claimed).

The company is adding almost 3000 per

year for power generation in India and
abroad. Bhaskar has provided power to
telecom companies like Airtel, Hutch in
states of Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar,
U.P., Uttranchal, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi,
Rajasthan, M.P., Gujarat, Maharashtra, A.P.
Other industrial, infrastructural, research,
educational, healthcare and petroleum
segments use their gensets across the country.

Project Locations
India

Latest Press Releases

Not Available

Company
Bhaskar Power
B-137, Sector-2
Noida-201 301
U.P. (India)

Website
bhaskarpower.com

Email
[email protected].
net.in

Telephone
(0120) 2552080/81,
2521355/75, 2533453/54

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Pace Power

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

Based in Bangalore, PACE operates over

50,000 sft manufacturing plants with over 825
employees worldwide. Pace has a pan India
presence and provides power solutions to all
major Telecom Operators, Network Equipment
Vendors (OEMs), BOL Operators, TSPs,
Enterprise & Industries.

Project Locations

Pace Power
Pace Power is a power solution provider for Telecom
industry. It is specialized on providing power solution for
unavailable or non-reliable grid site.

Company
Pace Power
Unit 2, Plot 27-A, First
Phase KIADB, Mysore
road, Kumbalgodu
Bangalore 560074

Website
pacepowerindia.com

India

Latest Press Releases

Not Available

Telephone
+91 80 284 37795

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Altobridge

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

26

Altobridge
Connecting the Unconnected

Altobridge is an R&D-focused, wireless network solut ons

provider. Its founding vision was to remove the technical
and commercial barriers that denied remote communities
affordable mobile voice and internet connectivity.
Since its creat on in 2002, Altobridge has designed, patented
and commercially deployed technology innovat ons that
have bridged the digital divide; breakthrough solut ons that
now enable mobile network operators, part cularly in low
and lower-middle income nat ons, to affordably connect
unconnected communities. In its early years, Altobridge
developed and commercially deployed the solut ons behind
the worlds rst commercial GSM service on board
passenger aircraf , and the worlds rst commercial
deployment of GSM connect vity on board deep-sea
merchant marit me vessels globally.
*GSM Associat on 2010, Informa Telecoms & Media 2010

Advancing from these breakthroughs,

Altobridge focused its resources on solving the
technical and commercial barriers that prevented
mobile network operators from cost-effect vely
extending their networks, beyond their urban
strongholds, to populat on centres in rural and
remote regions throughout emerging markets communit es yet to reap the social and economic
bene ts of mobile connect vity.Today, 1.6 billion
adults 23% of the worlds populat on globally
- are not connected to a mobile network. In
Sub-Saharan Africa, rural mobile penetrat on
rates are below 10% in most cases.*Altobridge has
set about removing the three greatest barriers
that mobile network operators face in terms of
rural and remote network expansion, namely:
(1) the capital costs involved in deploying tradit
onal infrastructure, such as 30+ metre telecoms
towers, which operators perceive to be prerequisite for rural deployment; (2) the operat onal

Company
Kerry Technology Park,
Tralee, Co. Kerry Ireland
Website
altobridge.com

Email
[email protected]
Telephone
+ 353 66 719 0210

costs required to drive power-hungry base stat

on transceivers; (3) the monthly transmission
costs (the backhaul costs) incurred to deliver
voice calls and mobile data traffic to and from
users devices.
Altobridge has achieved this through a series
of patented and patent-pending technologies,
namely, Altobridge Data-at-the-Edge
(data opt mizat on in wireless networks),
Local Connect vity (local voice switching)
and Split Architecture (transmission and
power opt mizat on). These technologies,
individually and combined, drive down
communicat ons delivery costs for mobile
network operators by reducing backhaul and
power consumpt on costs.

For further informat on, please contact:

Gerry Collins
gerry.collins
Head of Business
@altobridge.com
Development

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VNL

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

27

The components can be assembled and booted up

by two people and mounted on a rooftop in six
hours. To date, some 50 VNL base stations have
been installed in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

a telecommunications solution that is already

delivering the transformative capability of
cellular and broadband services to rural
geographies worldwide, outside the reach of the
mobile telecommunications network footprint.

VNL
VNL is providing the WorldGSM system, the solar
powered turnkey GSM system specifically made for rural
areas with ARPUs of less than $2. WorldGSM is the first
commercially viable GSM system that is independent of the
power grid. It runs exclusively on solar power and requires
no diesel generator backup. It is also designed for simple
delivery and deployment by local, untrained workers all
resulting in zero OPEX, dramatically lower CAPEX, and near
zero maintenance. VNL, based in Haryana, India, has
reengineered the traditional technology of the dominant
cellular standard, called GSM, in order to create base
stations that only require between 50 and 150 watts of
power, supplied by a solar-charged battery.

Project Locations

February 2010 - VNL Wins Green Mobile

Award for Best Green Programme Product or
Initiative

Asia, Africa

Latest Press Releases

January 2011 - VNLs Mobile Communication
Solution for Developing Countries Testing Use
of Boston-Powers Lithium-ion Battery System
http://www.vnl.in/blog/2011/
vnl%E2%80%99s-mobile-communicationsolution-for-developing-countries-testing-use-ofboston-power%E2%80%99s-lithium-ion-batterysystem/
VNL and Boston-Power, two World Economic
Forum Technology Pioneer Award recipients,
today announced a cooperation intended to
provide long lasting, green energy storage to

Company
VNL
21-B, Sector 18, Udyog
Vihar,
Gurgaon, 122015,
Haryana

Website
http://www.vnl.in/

http://www.vnl.in/blog/2010/live-frommobile-world-congress-vnl-wins-green-mobileaward-for-best-green-programme-product-orinitiative/
VNL is proud to announce the receipt of GSMAs
2010 Green Mobile - Best Green Programme
Product or Initiative Award during Mobile
World Congress Global Mobile Awards
Ceremony. The judges stated that selection
was made based on the sheer number of
people whose lives could be changed through
deployment of VNLs technology:

Telephone
+91 124 309 2000

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Emerson Network Power

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

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Emerson Network Power

Emerson Network Power provides innovative infrastructure
solutions that maximize reliability, deployment speed and
efficiency for communications networks. We are experts in
leveraging hybrid technology to minimize OPEX costs and
reduce the carbon footprint associated with GSM in areas
with limited access to grid power.

Product Description
Hybrid energy solutions from Emerson offer
smart integration of renewable and traditional
energy sources for indoor or outdoor
environments in off-grid or on-grid peak
shaving applications. Our reliable DC power
supply systems in combination with hybrid
power sources such as solar, wind, diesel and
batteries, provide intelligent site management
and integrated control.
Hybrid energy solutions from Emerson:

Emersons infrastructure solutions keep telecommunications

and IT networks up and running regardless of whether the
content is voice, data or multimedia.

 Reduce energy consumption significantly

with integrated energy optimization and
temperature control technologies
 Minimize carbon footprint by an average
of 30% utilizing hybrid energy solutions
 Maximize energy savings with eSure
high efficiency rectifiers

 Achieve significant OPEX savings through

remote monitoring and comprehensive
battery management capabilities
An integral part of our hybrid energy
solutions is the eSure high efficiency
rectifier. When compared to traditional
rectifiers in the market today, eSure DC
power technology significantly reduces CO2
emissions and operational costs, offering the
highest efficiency in the industry at 97 percent.
Efficiency can be boosted even further with
ECO mode, a patented technology in our
advanced controllers. By running only the
number of rectifiers required for normal load
conditions, maximum energy optimization can
be achieved.

Geographic Footprint
Worldwide.

 Leverage modular enclosure designs

that enable flexible expansion and easy
maintenance in the field

Trust and enlist Emerson to manage all aspects

of your critical infrastructure needs.

Company
Emerson Network Power
4530 Weaver Parkway
Warrenville, Illinois
60555 USA

Website
EmersonNetworkPower.
com/EnergySystems

Email
EnergySystems@
Emerson.com

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Qowisio

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

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Development Fund

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Qowisio
Qowisio is specialized in the provision of a 100% wireless
end to end solutions to improve the management and the
monitoring of telecom sites power resources.
Qowisio helps mobile operators to decrease significantly
your Operational expenditure:
1) Saving by 65% to 80% fuel on GSM site working
24H on genset
2) Reducing the frequency of site visit
3) Detecting and reducing fraud (fuel theft in the tank ...)
4) Cross checking invoices from subcontractors (detect
refuel volumes, KWH)
5) Reducing diesel overstock

Product Description
Qowisio Fuel tank monitoring: supervision
of the fuel tank
Qowisio Power Metering AC: generator
and grid power AC power quality and
consumption
Qowisio Power Metering DC: DC power
information (power, consumption, current,
voltage)
Qowisio Generator Monitoring: remote
automatic start/stop of the generator,
running time of generator, basic alarms
Qowisio Hybrid solution: Automatic start/
stop of the generator according to batteries
load measurement and calculation (batteries
provisioning as an option)

Company
Qowisio
8 rue de la Valle
ZA du rzeau
49800 Andard
France

Name
Xavier EME
Sales Director

Qowisio Tri-brid solution: Automatic start/

stop of the generator according to batteries
load measurement and solar panel power
delivery ( batteries provisioning and solar
panels as an option)
Qowisio site management extension
(temperature, door open/close, dry contacts
etc...)

Geographic Footprint
Qowisio has a world wide coverage through
local partners and representatives.

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APOLLO solar

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Apollo Solar is also the recent recipient of the

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Contract
Award, under the Solar Energy Grid Integration
System (SEGIS) Program, for the development
and deployment of a grid-interactive Solar
Inverter Control and Communications System
for the Smart Grid. Apollo Solar specializes in
innovative heat-reduction electronics design
which increases system performance and
component reliability while reducing the
upfront and life-of-system costs of the solar
energy generated.

Complete remote monitoring via local wire,

ethernet, or cellular modem, with optional
SNMP Gateway and custom screens and
alarms. Designed for 48 volt, positive-ground
(+) battery, the Systems are certified to UL1741
& CSA C22.2 No. 107. With remote monitoring
of the PV source, batteries, load current, and
internal charge controller functions, data is
logged every 10 seconds on: Voltage and
current on PV input, batteries, load, internal
and battery temperatures, Battery-State ofCharge, Energy Harvest, Diagnostics, and
Alarms on all vital parameters such as load
disconnect on low battery State-of-Charge.

Apollo Solar
Apollo Solar is an engineering, manufacturing, and sales
organization with over 40 years of expertise in the design
and manufacture of power electronics for NASA, the US
Military, and numerous Fortune 500 clients.
Apollo Solar now provides a new generation of highly
reliable and highly efficient Complete Off-Grid PV Power
Systems in a full line of inverters, charge controllers, and
communications modules, quickly integrated through
modular design for fast, fail-safe installation and use.

Product and service description

Built on the robust T80 and T80High-VoltageInput (200Voc) battery charge controllers, the
Apollo Telecom Systems integrates MPPT,
State-of-Charge data and energy charge
management with monitoring communications
into a single product. The Apollo Systems
include circuit breakers for all power lines,
robust lightning surge protection, optional
ground fault protection on all PV inputs and
combiner-box breakers for multiple PV inputs.

Company
Apollo Solar
23 FJ Clarke Circle
Bethel
CT 06801
USA
Apollo Solar PVforTelecom System in IP66 Enclosure

Name
Daniel TwoEagles

Geographic footprint
Apollo Systems are installed and operating
on every continent.
 xisting client list (must be public information)
E
(maximum 10 company names must be
telecoms clients)
Client testimonials/quotes (three quotes
maximum 100 words in total)
Email
daniel.twoeagles@
apollosolar.com

Telephone
US 203 790 6400

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Applied Solar Technologies India Pvt

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

The company is adding almost 3000 per

year for power generation in India and
abroad. Bhaskar has provided power to
telecom companies like Airtel, Hutch in
states of Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar,
U.P., Uttranchal, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi,
Rajasthan, M.P., Gujarat, Maharashtra, A.P.
Other industrial, infrastructural, research,
educational, healthcare and petroleum
segments use their gensets across the country.

Latest Press Releases

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Applied Solar Technologies India Pvt

Applied Solar Technologies (AST) is a solar PV based offgrid power solution company that provides solar power to
telecom towers that typically rely on diesel-based
generation for 50 100% of their power requirements.

April 2010 - AST plans to install its solution

in about 10,000 telecom tower sites in next
few years. IFC is considering an investment of
a total of up to $21 million in the Company in
a combination of equity and debt.
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/spiwebsite1.nsf/0
/670F11511CF18FAF8525770C004E213D

Project Locations
ASTs projects will be at multiple sites in
primarily rural areas of Indias states of Bihar,
Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Rajasthan

Company
Applied Solar
Technologies (India)
Pvt ltd C-122, Defence
Colony, New Delhi 110
024

Website
http://www.appliedsolartechnologies.com/
astdmc2/login.aspx

Telephone
+91 11 4155 2066

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Indosolar

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

The company markets and sells products

to primarily module manufacturers on a
business-to-business platform, who in turn
supply to the system integrators who install
the systems for grid and off-grid (roof top)
applications for use in the domestic market as
well as markets in Europe, Spain, Japan, Asia,
Canada and USA.

Latest Press Releases

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Indosolar
Indosolar manufactures poly-crystalline solar photo-voltaic
(SPV) cells from silicon wafers utilizing crystalline silicon
SPV cell technology for converting sunlight directly into
electricity through a process known as the photo-voltaic
effect.

Project Locations

http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/
details/beitrag/india--indosolar-raises-inr-35billion-to-establish-new-solar-cell-productionline_100001227/
India-based IndoSolar Limited has announced
it is to add a new 100-megawatt (MW)
production line to its 300,000 square foot solar
cell facility - located around 55km from Delhi
airport, in northern Indias Uttar Pradesh
state - after raising INR 3.5 billion in public
financing.

India

Company
Indosolar
C-12, Friends Colony
(East), New Delhi-110065

September 2010 - Indosolar raises INR 3.5

billion to establish new solar cell
production line

Website
indosolar.co.in

Telephone
+91-11-2684 1375

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KMR Infrastructure

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

KMR infrastructures distributed energy model

is developed by extensive study of 40 different
renewable energy programs across the world,
in conjunction with energy group of the World
Economic Forum (WEF Davos) group. The
company created a best practice framework
identifying various key elements needed to
make a scalable network of small renewable
energy projects. Using this framework the
company identified many target markets in
Asia and Africa and has been rolling out their
first set of projects based a robust financial and
operational delivery platform.

Project Locations

KMR Infrastructure
KMRI designs, finances, installs and operates renewable
energy plants and offers customers power purchase
agreements (PPA) that help them go green while reducing
operating cost and avoiding capital expenditure.

Asia and Africa

Latest Press Releases

Not Available

KMR Infrastructure has developed a

Franchise Fund model that will help small
scale renewable energy based franchises by
creating an end-to-end industry value chain
that will provide assistance in all areas starting
from project conception, financing, technology
selection, procurement, project management,
operations support and training and after sales
maintenance and service.

Company
KMR Infrastructure
47/10 Sarangapani St
Chennai 17,
India 600 017

Website
kmrinfrastructure.com

Telephone
+91-94450-35832

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Moser Baer Solar

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Limited (MBPV)

and PV Technologies India Limited (PVTIL)
are subsidiaries of Moser Baer India Limited.
These entities were launched between 2005
and 2007 to manufacture solar modules
and design EPCs for deployment of PV
System (solar farms, rooftops and off grid
applications).Today the company is present
in 82 countries. Moser Baer owns its own
PV production facility and raised 93.5 USD
Million of funds in 2008 for its PV business.
The company spent resources on the
development of thin film technology with the
commissions first of its kind 1 MW Thin Film
solar farm in Maharashtra. The company had
an overall income of 187 Rs in lacs in year
ending 31st March 2011.

Project Locations

Moser Baer Solar

Moser Baer is a global technology company providing
storage media products, Photovoltaic and home
entertainment.

Company
Moser Baer Solar
43B, Okhla Industrial Estate, New Delhi - 110020.
India.

Website
moserbaersolar.com

India, Global

Latest Press Releases

October 2010 - Moser Baer India awarded
MNRE grant for the development of an
innovative CIGS solar cell technology
http://www.moserbaersolar.com/mediapress-details-oct27-10.asp?links=me2a
Moser Baer India (MBI) has been awarded
a grant by the Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy (MNRE) to engage in the
developmental activity of Copper Indium
Gallium Selenide (CIGS) solar cells.

Telephone
+91 11 40594444

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Reliance Solar

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

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Reliance Solar
Reliance Solar is developing and offering a range of
products, systems and solutions- from solar lanterns, home
lighting systems, street lighting systems, water purification
systems, refrigeration systems to solar air conditioners - all
based on solar energy. Partners include BSNL, ITIL.

Project Locations
India

Latest Press Releases

Not Available

Company
Reliance Solar Group
Building No. 5C,1 st Floor,
Reliance Corporate
Park,Thane- Belapur
Road, Ghansoli, Navi
Mumbai 400701, India

Website
relsolar.com

Telephone
+91-22-44770000

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Sun Edison

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Project Locations

SunEdison is one of the worlds leading solar

project developers, with more than 350 solar
electric power plants constructed and under
management. First Reserve is one of the worlds
largest private equity and energy infrastructure
investors, with $20 billion under management.

Sun Edison
SunEdison is developing and operating hundreds of solar
plants throughout the world, representing 100.6 MW of
clean photovoltaic (PV) capacity.

Indian Subcontinent, East Asia, Middle East

and South East Asia

Latest Press Releases

May 2010 - SunEdison, an MEMC Company,
and First Reserve Announce Joint Venture
to Fund Up to $1.5 Billion of Solar Energy
Projects
http://www.sunedison.in/press_releases.
php?id=96
SunEdison, the solar energy development
division of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.
(NYSE: WFR), today announced an agreement
with First Reserve Corporation to establish
a joint venture which could provide for the
acquisition of up to $1.5 billion in current and
future SunEdison solar photovoltaic energy
projects.

Company
Sun Edison
Gat No. 1569/B, Off
Pune-Saswad Road,
Vadki Village, Pune
- 412 308, INDIA.

Website
sunedison.com

Telephone
+91 (020) 64011044

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Tata BP Solar

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The company has a cell manufacturing capacity

of 84 MW and module manufacturing capacity
of 125 MW.

April 2010 - Tata BP Solar Expands Solar

Manufacturing Capacity by 62% to Serve
Growing Solar Market in India

Project Locations

http://www.tatabpsolar.com/news.php?k_
id=Tata-BP-Solar-Expands-Solar-ManufacturingCapacity-by-62--to-Serve-Growing-Solar-Marketin-India

Tata BP Solar
Tata BP Solar is a joint venture of BP Solar (51%) with Tata
Power (49%). Tata BP Solar has played an active role in
developing the Indian solar market over the last 20 years
during the phase when only off-grid products such as solar
lanterns and home lightings systems and solar street lights
could be sold in India. The company has established rooftop
and free field solar power plants and megawatt-scale grid
connected solar power plants in Germany, Spain, USA,
Australia and Italy.

India

Latest Press Releases

March 2011 - Tata BP Solar Receives FICCI
Annual Award 2008-09 From India Finance
Minister
http://news.oneindia.in/2011/03/03/tata-bpsolar-ficci-annual-award-2008-09-aid0102.html
Tata BP Solar added another feather to its cap
as the Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab
Mukherjee, presented the company with the
FICCI Annual Award 2008-09 for Outstanding
Achievement in Environmental Sustainability of
Business at the 83rd Annual General Meeting of
the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce
and Industry (FICCI) on Tuesday 01 March 2011.

Company
Tata BP Solar
Plot No.78, Electronic City
Hosur Road
Bangalore 560 100 India

Website
tatabpsolar.com

August 2009 - NXP Semiconductors today

announced a development partnership with
Tata BP Solar India ltd, a joint venture of BP
Solar and Tata Power, under which Tata BP
intends to use various electronic solutions for
solar applications developed by NXP. These
solutions have been developed by NXP as per
the requirements of Tata BP. Both companies are
looking at a long-term partnership that will see
the development of a range of products.
http://www.solarfeeds.com/pcs-solarphotovoltaics-blog-/8423-tata-bp-solar-nxpco-operate-to-develop-solar-solutions

Telephone
+91 80 4070 2000

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Vikram Solar

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The company also undertakes EPC contracts

for private/government sectors on large and
complex Solar PV Power projects. It has its
own PV manufacturing facility and in house
System Designing at its factory in Falta, West
Bengal. Vikram Solar has a strong in-house
R&D team that is continuously evolving new
technologies to increase the module efficiency.
It has a tie- up with BESU (Bengal Engineering
& Science University) in Kolkata, and strong
relation with various major technology
providers.

Vikram Solar Private Limited, one of the

premier companies in India for the promotion
of renewable energy and its implementation,
has decided for a major initiative towards
solarization of telecom towers. Vikram Solar
manufactures a wide range of Solar modules
made with high efficiency multi/mono
crystalline solar cells for both commercial and
domestic use. The company also undertakes
EPC contracts for private/government sectors
on large and complex Solar PV Power projects.
It has its own PV manufacturing facility and in
house System Designing at its factory in Falta,
West Bengal. In-house manufacturing of PV
modules helps the company to keep control
over the cost and quality.

Vikram Solar
Vikram Solar manufactures a wide range of Solar modules
made with high efficiency multi / mono crystalline solar
cells for both commercial and domestic use.

Project Locations
Asia, Europe, USA, Africa

Latest Press Releases

May 2011 - Vikram Solar Plans Major Thrust
towards Solarization of Telecom Towers

Company
Vikram Solar
Tobacco House
1, Old Court House
Corner
Kolkata-700001 (India)

Website
vikramsolar.com

Telephone
+91 33 2230 7299

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XL Telecom & Energy

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

XL, through its subsidiary, established 1.6 MW

Solar Farm in Europe in October 2008, the first
Company globally to capture the complete
Solar value Chain for Solar Cell to Energy
Generation with total investment of Euro 10.3
Million which is making profits since then.

Latest Press Releases

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XL Telecom & Energy

XL is a Solar End-to-End solution provider with its solutions
extending from Solar Cell Manufacturing to SPY Modules
to Turnkey Systems Integration for Solar Farms.

Project Locations
India, Europe

Company
XL Telecom & Energy
C2, Pooja Plaza,
Vikrampuri, Secunderabad - 500 009
Andhra Pradesh, India.
Phone: +91-40-2788
3333

Website
xlenergy.co

2007 - XL Telecom & Energy Bags worth of

Rs. 235 Million BSNL order
XL TELECOM & ENERGY LTD, a leading
global Solar Energy focused company, received
ORDERS VALUED Rs.235 Millions for supply
of Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems to Bharat
Sauchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)i The order
involves supplyiof complete Solar System for
Telecom Applications.

e-mail
[email protected]

Telephone
+91-40-2788 3333

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Delta energy

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

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We revolutionize telecom power market

standards by bringing energy efficiency to
the system level. Our cutting-edge control
and monitoring solutions include the most
efficient power conversion modules, cooling
options and renewable energy sources in the
market. Thanks to our broad product portfolio
and global resources, we can provide our
telecom customers with highly efficient, total
power solutions.

Available in different configurations, Delta

OutD cabinets are designed to protect
equipment from external threats in all climates
from the tropics to the arctic. In addition to
traditional cooling methods, Deltas new
hybrid cooling options revolutionize the
cost structure of thermal management. For
systems designed for EMEA and SA, Delta
has developed two new hybrid solutions. Both
hybrid systems, a combination of AV+AC and
a combination of HEX+AV, lower operational
as well as capital expenditure.

Delta Group
The Delta Group is the worlds leading manufacturer
of switching power supplies and DC brushless fans,
as well as a major supplier of power management
solutions, components, visual displays, industrial
automation, networking products, and renewable energy
solutions. Our mission is to provide innovative, clean and
efficient energy solutions for a better tomorrow.

Client List
Vodafone Turkey
Mail.ru
Orange Poland
Togocell
Etisalat MISR

Saudi Telecom
Motorola/NSN
MTN Networks
Maroc Telecom
Mobilink Pakistan

Qtel Group
Zain Group
Mobinil Egypt
Mobily Saudi (Etisalat Saudi)
Saudi ITC

The key reason for choosing Delta was its wide product range. A total
solution not only makes life easier but also enables significant cost savings.
Vodafone Essar.

RenE solutions use renewable energy or a

combination of renewable and other energy
sources, such as mains power or diesel
generators. Renewable energy sources ensure
reliable telecom services in areas where mains
power is unreliable or unavailable.
Deltas EnergE rectifiers are an efficient and
sustainable solution to power conversion. They
set a new standard in energy efficiency: many
models meet the highest energy-efficiency
standards of up to 95% or more. The plug-andplay EnergE rectifiers can also be installed as
an upgrade to your existing system.

Company
Delta Energy Systems
Switzerland AG
Freiburgstrasse 251
3010 Bern-Bmpliz
Switzerland

Contact
Peter Bigler (ET)
Carlo Pasqualotto (MEA)
Sergey Rasskazov (RU)
Email
[email protected]
info.middle-east@delta-

In the EMEA region, Delta is headquartered

in the Netherlands and has operations in
17 countries.

Geographic Footprint
Worldwide.

[email protected]
[email protected]

Telephone
+ 41 31 998 53 11

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BS Transcomm

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

As of June 2010, the company had 1,011

permanent employees and 780 contract
employees. BS TransComm offers its
customers alternate energy solution via
Solar & Wind Hybrid Energy Solution which
reduces the operational costs, specifically
energy costs, of running a telecom cell
site. BSTLs deployed a pilot of a solar and
Wind Hybrid Solution for Telecom Cell Site
which helps in reducing the dependency
on diesel consumption and runs effectively
using natural resources of solar & wind. BS
TransComm offers a wide range of remote
monitoring and control solutions to its
customers through products developed
by Sugan automatics private limited. The
key clients of the company include Aircel,
Idea, GTL, Essar, Indus Towers, Reliance
Communications, Tata Indicom, etc.

Latest Press Releases

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BS Transcomm
BS TransComm Limited (BTL) was incorporated in 2004 and
is headquartered at Hyderabad. The company provides
end-to end solutions which include tower manufacturing,
turnkey services, managed services and technology
solutions for power transmission and telecom
infrastructure. The company has two tower manufacturing
facilities, at Medhal and Mechal in Andhra Pradesh.

Project Locations

October 2010 - BS Transcomm to earn Rs 200

crore from green energy business
Hyderabad-based BS transcomm engaged
in providing towers to telcom and power
transmission companies expects its off-grid
renewable energy solutions business to
contribute Rs 200 crore over the next 10 years.
We have received an LoI (letter of intent)
from Zamil New Delhi Infrastructure for 500
green energy sites, which will be installed in
the next six months by our subsidiary Sugan
Automatics, Rajesh Agarwal, Managing
Director of BS Transcomm told reporters here
today.
Agarwal said that the company had tied up
with Tata BP Solar for the solar panels, and is
currently in talks with companies like Indus
Towers, BSNL and MTNL.

Eight regional offices to service all 23 telecom

circles in India and six project offices to
service customers in the power sector.

Company
BS Transcomm
# 504, Trendset Towers
Road No. 2,
Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500034,
Andhra Pradesh, India.

Website
bsgroup.in

e-mail
[email protected]

Telephone
+91-40-4455 8888, 6666
6204 / 205

Fax
+91-40-6666 7268

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ACME

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

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42

ACME has as good relationship with Bharti

in India, and relayed to me off the record,
that ACME supplies 70-80% of the passive
equipment in Bharti towers across India.
ACME is among the main solar providers
in India and has deployed approximately
100 turnkey solar sites using the PPA model
and has a backlog of 1500 sites, with each
site having load range from 5-6kW. Clients
include Airtel, Vodafone, IDEA, Safaricom,
Tata Indicom, Reliance Infocomm, Indosat,
GrameenTelecom.

Best Green Product/Service or Performance

category by GSMA (Mobile World Congress
2011)

ACME
ACME is a solar power company providing solutions for
both thermal and photovoltaic technologies. ACME started
their telecom business in 2003 with the goal of improving
the energy efficiency of tower BTS. They presently have 500
million in annual turnover with 100 million in profits in
2009. Previously they have been focused primarily on the
Indian market, but now have a footprint in 5 African
countries, with their wholly owned subsidiary Reime NIS
Company. They see an expansion into Africa as significant,
as larger players such as Bharti buying Zain are looking to
consolidate and potentially bring the tower model to Africa.

Project Locations
The company is currently focusing on nine
telecom circles: Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar
Pradesh West), Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Assam and
Andhra Pradesh.

Latest Press Releases

http://www.acmetelepower.com/download/
GSMA-nomination-jan-19-2011.pdf
September 2010 ACME Tele Power
ltd becomes key solar power supplier to
Grameenphone. ACME Tele Power ltd
(ATPL) has signed an agreement with
Grameenphone ltd, the first telecom company
in Bangladesh to have deployed solar
power on large-scale under power purchase
agreement. Under its agreement with
Grameenphone ltd, ATPL will be responsible
for installation and maintenance of solar
panels in Grameenphones Base Transceiver
Station (BTS) premises. Grameenphone will
buy electricity on unit (Kwh) consumption
basis for a contract period of 10 years, with a
buy-back option after that period.

January 2011 ACME Telepower ltd

shortlisted for Green Mobile Award for

Company
ACME
182 Sector-3 Gurgaon
Haryana 122050

Website
acme.in

Telephone
+91-124-2291361/62

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Alcatel Lucent

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

ESCOs Landscape in India

GSMA
Development Fund

AL is providing its renewable energy products

under the Alcatel Lucents Green Touch
initiative, which aims to reduce the emissions
produced by networks a thousandfold. This
initiative was launched in January 2010,
including several major network operators,
including China Mobile, AT&T, Portugal
Telecom and Swisscom, and a host of research
institutes and component manufacturers.

Latest Press Releases

Alcatel Lucent
Alcatel Lucent AL is one of the biggest telecom equipment
providers worldwide; the company focuses on fixed, mobile,
and converged networking hardware, IP technologies,
software, and services.

Project Locations
Global

Company
Alcatel Lucent
14th & 15th Floor
Tower C, DLF Cyber
Greens DLF City, Phase III
Gurgaon 122002,Haryana

Website
alcatel-lucent.com

May 2009 - Bharti Forms India Telecom

Alliance with Alcatel-Lucent
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/
content/may2009/gb2009051_422522.htm
Bharti Airtel has entered into a joint venture
with Franco-American telecom gear maker
Alcatel-Lucent to manage its landline and
broadband business, expanding its tested
strategy of outsourcing technology functions
to focus more on marketing and sales.

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Ericsson

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AL is providing its renewable energy products

under the Alcatel Lucents Green Touch
initiative, which aims to reduce the emissions
produced by networks a thousandfold. This
initiative was launched in January 2010,
including several major network operators,
including China Mobile, AT&T, Portugal
Telecom and Swisscom, and a host of research
institutes and component manufacturers.

Federation of Indian Export Organizations

(FIEO) has awarded Ericsson with the
Excellent Initiative towards Green
Technology award at the Telecom
Technology Awards. The Telecom Technology
Award is organized for the first time by FIEO
to honour companies who are contributing
by bringing in innovation and promoting
efficiency in communication technology.
Ericsson has been recognized for its
sustainable and green solutions that aim to
enable a low carbon economy by making the
networks more efficient in terms of energy
consumption. Ericsson solutions such as
Smart Site, MSC-S Blade Cluster server, GSM
RBS 2111 Main Remote, Network Energy
Optimization , BTS Power Saving Feature,
Bio-fuels and Tower Tube were recognized as
industry leading innovations in this field.

Ericsson
Ericsson is the biggest worldwide provider of mobile
telecommunication equipment and data communication
systems, and related services, covering a range of
technologies, including especially mobile networks. The
company has been working to reduce and optimize their
BTS consumption over the past years, added to other
initiatives such as Community Power in Africa.

Project Locations
Global

Latest Press Releases

May 2011 - Ericsson wins Excellent initiative
towards green technology award in India
http://www.ericsson.com/news/110512_
award_india_244188810_c

Company
Ericsson
Ericsson Forum, DLF
Cyber city Sector 25/A,
Gurgaon 122002
Haryana

Website
http://www.ericsson.com/
thecompany/company_
facts/worldwide/as/in

Telephone
+91 124 2560808

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Huawei

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Project Locations

Apart from expanding its reach in India by

opening offices in new locations, Huawei India
will be expanding its R&D capabilities at its
Bangalore centre and also starting production
at its upcoming plant near Chennai.
Significantly, the current Bangalore R&D
centre is already the biggest such facility for
the company outside China.

Huawei
Huawei is one of the largest networking and
telecommunications equipment company headquartered
in Shenzhen. It is estimated to be the second-largest
supplier of mobile telecommunications infrastructure
equipment in the world (after Ericsson). Huawei recently
announced the next five years will be $2 billion
investment in India, used for research and development,
manufacturing, and development for the Indian
market products.

Global

Latest Press Releases

December 2010 - Huawei turns focus on India
On the eve of Premier Wen Jiabaos India visit
last week, Chinese telecommunication giant
Huawei Technologies announced a $2 billion
(around Rs.9,000 crore) investment in India
over the next five years, clearly indicating how
serious it is to tap the hidden potential of the
Indian telecom sector. Though the Chinese
telecom equipment giant has been in India
for the past decade, it is now giving clear
indications to its European competitors that
the race ahead would be no cakewalk for them.
For the next five years, Huawei would largely
focus on the Indian market, which is all set to
witness another boom with Indian telecom
operators launching an array of 3G mobile
services and hi-speed wireless broadband.

Company
Huawei
5th Floor, Dheeraj Arma,
Next to ONGC,Anant
Kanekar Marg, Station
Road,Off. Western Express Highway,Bandra(E),
Mumbai 51

Website
http://www.huawei.com/
ap/en/catalog.do?id=301

Telephone
0091-022 39580808

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Nokia Siemens Networks

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The Delhi and Bangalore NSN Hub are among

the biggest for the company. NSN will also
establish a new facility at Navalur in Chennai
in addition to the existing facility at Taramani
as part of its global network solutions center
(GNSC). Nokia Siemens Networks is also
committed to manufacture 3G products
locally, at its Chennai facility.

Telecommunication equipment major Nokia

Siemens is planning to source components
worth Euro 500 million, an increase of around
50 per cent compared to last year. Meanwhile,
the company has developed renewable
energy solutions for telecoms operators. The
solution would help the operators to handle
frequent power cuts in rural parts of India
and will reduce the operating cost, according
companys senior official.

Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is one of the biggest
telecom equipment providers worldwide. The customer
base of Nokia Siemens Networks includes 1,400 customers
in over 150 countries (including more than 600 operator
customers).

Project Locations
Global

Latest Press Releases

May 2010 - Nokia-Siemens to source
components from India
http://www.business-standard.com/
india/news/nokia-siemens-to-sourcecomponentsindia/394388/

Company
Nokia Siemens Networks
7th Floor, Building 9A,
DLF Cyber city Phase III
Gurgaon 122001,
Haryana, India

Website
http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/about-us/
directory-of-contacts/
india

NSN also developed a range of energy

solutions for telecoms operators. The energy
solutions, designed to reduce network
operating costs, can lower the power
consumption of telecoms networks by
exploiting more efficient technology and
renewable energy, said Samar Mittal, Head
of Global Services Sales at Nokia Siemens
Networks India. He added that Nokia Siemens
Networks Energy Solutions include energy
saving site solution products, renewable
energy products include solar panels, wind
turbines, battery banks and others.

Telephone
+91 124 4504000

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Power Oasis

Telecoms Renewable Energy Vendors/

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PowerOasis have established themselves as

innovators in combining the needs of mobile
telecommunications companies with the
latest advancements in tier 1, telco grade
renewable systems. 2010 marked a new
chapter for PowerOasis rollouts with a 200-site
deployment in South East Asia, which has
underlined the substantial cost savings that
can be made with their unified, equipment
agnostic wireless network power management
solutions. The contract was for a combination
of green field, retrofit, on-grid, off-grid and
unreliable grid. The PowerOasis Controller
(D) is used for smart generator-battery hybrid
power management supplemented by solar
energy on a selection of sites

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Power Oasis
PowerOasis is a UK based company providing turnkey, offgrid power solutions for operators of mobile phone base
stations. We offer a unique combination of expertise in
renewable energy and mobile telecommunications.

Project Locations
Global

Company
PowerOasis ltd
41, Shrivenham Hundred
Business Park
Majors Road
Watchfield
Swindon SN68TZ
United Kingdom

Website
www.power-oasis.com

June 2011 -PowerOasis Opens New AsiaPacific Office

http://www.power-oasis.com/webmanager/
news_25.html
Reacting to strong demand for its wireless
network power management solutions in the
Asia-Pacific region, PowerOasis is pleased
to announce the strengthening of its local
presence with a new office in Singapore.
John ODonohue, Chief Executive Officer for
PowerOasis explains; Our new Singapore
presence means that we can provide timely
support and strong local knowledge to
benefit customers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Our wireless network power management
solutions are well proven as demonstrated by
a recent 200-site hybrid power solution roll-out
for a South East Asia operator. This operator is
now benefiting from fuel savings, reduced site
visits, fewer power related trouble tickets and
improved supply chain management.

Telephone
+44 1793 784242

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Luminous Renewable Energy Solutions
(former UD Energy)

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It is engaged in design, manufacture, supply,

installation and servicing of all types of WindSolar, only Wind and only Solar photovoltaic
power plants. UD Energy Systems have a
strong technology base for delivering remote
power solutions. Its team of engineers and
technicians are experienced in wind solar
hybrid design, system integration and
installation.

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Luminous Renewable Energy

Solutions (former UD Energy)
UD Energy Systems (P) Limited is now a part of the USD
150 Million Luminous Power Technologies ltd Group.

Project Locations
Indian Subcontinent, East Asia, Middle East
and South East Asia

Company
Luminous Renewable
Energy Solutions (former
UD Energy)
Gat No. 1569/B, Off
Pune-Saswad Road,
Vadki Village, Pune - 412
308, INDIA.

Website
windsolarzone.com

June 2011 - Schneider Electric buys 74% stake

in Luminous Power
French firm Schneider Electric said on Tuesday
that it will invest Rs 1,400 crore to acquire a
74 per cent stake in the countrys Luminous
Power Technologies Private ltd, which is
engaged in providing inverters, UPS and
power storage systems for homes and small
and medium-sized businesses. Luminous
employs approximately 3,000 people in eight
different industrial sites in India and one in
China. It generated revenues of Rs 1,100 crore
for the financial year ended March, 2011, it
said.

Telephone
+91 (020) 64011044

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Bergey WindPower

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Bergey is involved in the Telecom and the

global rural electrification sectors. In India
the government is using 20 kW wind system
packages, using two of their 10 kW units, to
bring electricity to villages far from the utility
grid. Jengging village, Arunachal Pradesh,
which is in the foothills of the Himalayan
Mountains, for example, was electrified with
wind turbines in 1988.

Project Locations

Bergey WindPower
BWC provides complete design, supply, and installation
services for hybrid power systems utilizing wind turbines,
diesel generators and photovoltaic arrays.

Company
Bergey WindPower Co.
2200 Industrial Blvd.
Norman, Ok 73069 USA

Website
bergey.com

Global

Latest Press Releases

Not Available

Telephone
(405) 364-4212

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Unitron Energy

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Few years back the Company diversified into

foray of Renewable Energy Systems, such as
small wind energy, which is still at a nascent
stage in our country, especially the concept of
MICRO WIND.

Project Locations

Unitron Energy
The main strength of the company is manufacturing and
development of various types of New Generation Power
Conditioning & Power Conversion equipment such as U.P.S.,
DC-DC Converters, Inverters, and Charge Regulators VFD
Drives etc.

India, EU, Africa, USA, Far East

Latest Press Releases

Not Available

Company
Plot No. 25
Sanjay Park
Air Port Road
Pune - 411 032

Website
unitronenergy.com

Telephone
91 - 20 - 2 6687006

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Zephyr Corporation

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With a diameter of just 1.8 metres and

weighing only 17.5 kg thanks to ultralight
blades made from carbon fibre, Zephyr
Corporations turbines are able to generate
power at the lowest wind speed of any turbine
on the market today from just 2.5 m/s (5.6
mph). They can be used at both off-grid and
on-grid sites; either for new base station
deployments; or for retrofitting of existing
base stations.

Zephyr Corporation today announced that

Turkcell is using its wind turbines to power
off-grid sites in the Izmir, Antalya and Adana
provinces of Turkey. The eleven turbines
are being used to power seven Ericsson
GSM base station sites which are located
in areas not covered by the electricity grid
and supplement the solar panels and diesel
generators already in use. Mr. lter Terzioglu,
Turkcells Chief Technical Operator (CTO)
who is responsible for network operations,
said: Turkcell is a pioneer in the the adoption
of environmentally-friendly technology
including wind turbines. Turkcell is already
saving energy equal to the annual need of
315 households with the energy produced
via alternative sources. With the other saving
methods utilised in base stations we are
expecting annual 13.2 milion Wh reduction
in total consumption. This corresponds to the
energy use of a family of four for 165 years.

Zephyr Corporation
Established in 1997, Zephyr Corporation is a privately
owned company which is headquartered in Japan and has
offices in Sweden, USA and Dubai. All development and
manufacturing is done in Japan from Japanese materials.
More than 4,000 of Zephyr Corporations turbines have
been installed worldwide. Zephyr is an expert in wind
turbine products.

Project Locations
Global

Latest Press Releases

October 2010 - Turkcell Using Zephyr
Corporations Wind Turbines To Power OffGrid Base Stations
http://www.zephyreco.co.jp/en/
news/2010/10/21/turkcell_using_zephyr_
corporat.html

Company
Zephyr Corporation
5th Floor, Pacific Marks
Shinjuku Parkside
4-15-7 Nishi-shinjuku,
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 160-0023, JAPAN

Website
zephyreco.co.jp/en/

Telephone
03-3299-1910