Arif Aga, Founder and Managing Director, SgurrEnergy India.
Kindly tell us about your company and your journey in India.
SgurrEnergy India is a leading solar engineering consultant in South Asia with over 300 customers and 6 GW of projects that are either commissioned or under implementation. We started our India operations in 2007 with a team of three people and with a focus on providing consulting services in solar PV sector; and have since then grown to a team of over 67 engineers and solar experts. In 2008 we worked only on feasibility studies, but are now into engineering, quality assurance and construction monitoring services.
How do you ensure innovation, cost control and bankability in a competitive market?
SgurrEnergy India has been quite instrumental in getting down the BOS costs for solar projects in India. We were able to achieve this by working in an integrated manner under single roof. We have been quite effective in providing cost to benefit analysis for various technologies for each project we have worked on. We focused on innovating new methods of project design with zero tolerance towards deviations from technical standards. These innovative methods are designed to reduce cost for the project, few examples are:
We were the first ones to use aluminium cables way back in 2010-11.
We were the first ones to reduce the mounting structure weight from 100 tonnes per MW to 32 tonnes per MW, through an extensive value engineering exercise.
We were the first ones to use multiple winding transformers in the Indian market.
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Arif Aga, Founder and Managing Director, SgurrEnergy India.
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