Energetica India nº91 July August 2020

BPE Hires Industry Veteran Vivek Kapoor as VP-Technical & Projects Best Power Equipments (India) Pvt Ltd (BPE), power management solutions provider, has appointed Vivek Kapoor as Technical Projects Head for 3Phase UPS and Solar division. In his new role at BPE, Kapoor will be responsible for technical and projects and will be based in Head office Noida, India. He brings with him a rich industry ex- perience of over 23 years in localization projects, SMPS & UPS Engineering, new factory setups and product Man- agement. In his previous assignments he was associated with Shreetron India Ltd. (Uptron), Himachal Exicom Communi- cations Ltd. (HFCL), Eaton & Delta in various positions. Commenting on Kapoor’s appointment, Amitansu Satpathy, Managing Direc- tor, Best Power Equipments, said that, “BPE is a growing company and we need experience, expertise and acu- men of our team members to penetrate the domestic as well as international market, which will eventually help scal- ing up the business. Vivek’s rich expe- rience is definitely going to contribute towards the growth of BPE.” He further added that appointed at a senior leadership position at BPE highlights the company’s focus on ex- pansion and potential reach into the re- gional and international markets across the country. Noida-headquartered BPE was estab - lished in 2000 and has strategically ex- panded, by providing power solutions for IT, industrial & critical equipment, telecom, data centres & electro-medi- cal gadgets, not only in India but also in Singapore, Malaysia and other coun- tries. The company’s manufacturing product range includes Line Interactive UPS, Single Phase Online UPS, Three Phase Online UPS, Rack Mount UPS, Solar In- verters and others. CtrlS Goes Solar with Waaree; Builds World’s 1st Solar-Powered Rated-4 Datacenter Asia’s Largest Rated-4 Hyperscale Datacenter CtrlS Datacenters has de- ployed building integrated vertical so- lar photovoltaic (PV) system from Waa- ree, a leading PV module maker, at its Mumbai facility. Under this project, Waaree, which is having 2 GW of module manufactur- ing capacity, has installed building in- tegrated solar panels on all 4 walls of the facility, covering more than “5,000 sqm of facade area. On the other hand, U-Solar Clean Energy has provided en- gineering, procurement and construc- tion (EPC) services for the project.” Further, the installed solar plant is hav- ing a capacity of about 1 MW, and is ex- pected to help in reducing CO2 emis- sions equivalent to almost 7,000 trees per year. Commenting on the development, Sri- dhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, said that, “we chose to install solar panels on all the four sides of the building instead of roof top solar as it provides large space for absorption of sunlight. We therefore replaced the conventional glass in our data center facility, with solar panels thereby generate higher power through clean energy and thereby reducing carbon footprint. Besides, the Waaree BIPV panels act as a thermal insulation by blocking the sun and thus also re- ducing the power consumption of the air conditioning system, thus saving on electricity bills considerably.” The solar panels were installed with power optimizers to increase energy output from PV systems by constant- ly tracking the maximum power point (MPPT) of each module individually, having capability to monitor perfor- mance of each module. “We are happy to be part of such an innovative BIPV project and we are thankful to CtrlS for not only giving us opportunity but implementing such great idea and making India’s first larg - est BIPV project,” said Dr. Hitesh Doshi, CMD Waaree Energies Ltd. NEWS NATIONAL 10 energetica INDIA- July-Aug_2020