Renewable energy has always been an integral part of India’s growth, solar has become key to our growing energy needs. Solar power systems derive clean and pure energy from the sun, and help combat greenhouse gas emissions.
The government of India has already come out with an ambitious renewable energy goal of 175 GW by 2022 and 450 GW by 2030, and solar will play the main role in this. And a collaborative approach to scale innovative solar energy solutions is the need of the hour.
In the past few years, many startups have emerged in this space , working towards scaling renewable energy sources and reducing the use of natural resources and its impact on the environment. In addition, they are providing end-to-end solutions to the market and the individuals.
YourStory list a few startups who have brought various innovations in this space.
ZunRoof
ZunRoof founder Pranesh Chaudhary
Gurugram-based ZunRoof is solving energy issues by leveraging unutilised rooftops of houses, offices to set up panels to tap solar energy.
The founders, Pranesh Chaudhary and Sushant Sachan, realised that electricity expenses were a huge monthly outflow for all Indian households, and decided to solve this problem.
In 2016, the duo started ZunRoof, a home-tech company, powered by a mix of image processing, virtual reality, IoT, and data analytics.
Till date, the startup has assessed over 250,000 homes, designed more than 30,000 rooftop solar systems across 75+ cities in India. It has installed 15 MW+ of rooftop solar and 50,000+ IoT devices.
The clean energy startup claims to have grown 3-4X year-on-year and hit $1 million in monthly revenue in February 2020.
Source: m.dailyhunt.in
