What should worry utility industry executives most in 2020s and how to be unfazed if you are one?
Linkedin
January 15, 2020
The utility company of the 2020s is a consumer centric, tech savvy, highly personal, brand-led platform for a variety of energy-oriented services to be provided to a set of consumers, with possibly many extraneous arms. If you are a large utility company today and wish to make it through to the 2030s unscathed, the only way you can do so is if you aim aggressively to create 3-5 new unicorns in the next 7-8 years using the F-A-S-T framework while building your future strategy. Read my take on what is next in the energy industry over this decade and more,
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Tags: Digital Disruption, Emerging Technology, Renewable Energy
The state of Public EV charging infrastructure in India
Linkedin
January 04, 2020
My take on the state of EV charging infrastructure in India from the perspective of an on-ground operator and leader of new energy ventures
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Tags: Finance, Mobility, Renewable Energy
Battery Energy Storage: The next frontier for renewable energy investors
Linkedin
December 02, 2018
Renewable energy, primarily led by the stupendous growth of solar PV with cost drops of almost 80% over the last decade alone, has given fossil fuel based generation a run for its money. As it continued defining new benchmarks in clean energy power purchase costs, renewable energy has silently found an ally in a electrochemical energy storage technology that mankind has now known for centuries (batteries) which might aid wider clean energy penetration on the grid in years to come. Enter 2018: Battery energy storage as a sector has come alive thanks to a steep decline in costs (BNEF puts it at 79% cost drop since 2010), allowing a wide range of budding entrepreneurs, funds, investment platforms, utilities and governments to try and figure out how they can get a piece of action in what appears to be a new frontier for the energy industry.
In this article, I share some thoughts on three key areas of concern for investors, basis my observations as a speaker at the recently held Infrastructure Investor Hong Kong Summit Renewable Energy Forum, which clearly showed there was sufficient interest within the larger group of infra investors to take formidable positions within the growing battery energy storage (BESS) space.
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Tags: Digital Disruption, Finance, Renewable Energy
PBES, Sterling and Wilson Announce Strategic Partnership
Shift+2 Clean Energy (PBES)
June 05, 2019
Marine energy storage and battery company PBES and power generation company Sterling and Wilson have announced a strategic partnership agreement. The agreement sees Sterling and Wilson acquiring a significant portion of PBES equity, thereby helping to stabilize PBES and move the company forward in its marine electric and hybrid energy storage business, while providing a strategic component in Sterling and Wilson's portfolio.
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Tags: Emerging Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, Predictive Analytics
US$ 5M Corporate Venturing with Energize Capital on behalf of Sterling Wilson to access emerging tech
Energize Capital
September 26, 2018
Led US$ 5M corporate venturing exercise with Energize Ventures (Invenergy Future Fund) alongside WEP Energy, GE, Schneider Electric besides other family office LPs to access climate-tech for new businesses at Sterling & Wilson.
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Tags: Mobility, Predictive Analytics, Venture Capital
Mahindra group gearing for clean technology, not just solar power
BusinessLine
January 16, 2013
Developed 500MW wind energy entry strategy in collaboration with EY and IDFC
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Jakson Group forms New Entity Jakson Green to focus on Green Technologies
Energetica
July 07, 2022
Vish Iyer was the Global CCO, part of the founding executive team alongside the CEO and COO. He had previously been founder of Nubridge Ventures, alongside the other co-founders of Jakson Green since 2021 and enjoyed a long working collaboration with the team since 2013.
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Founder and Executive Director at Nubridge Capital FZCO Dubai
Nubridge Ventures FZCO
May 06, 2021
Engineered the launch of Nubridge Ventures, a Dubai-based nano-VC family office fund and drove US$2Mn in strategic investments in climate-focused startups including Desolenator, Green Tiger, Inergio, and Vocuni.
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Founder and Director at Minnitz Pte. Ltd.
Minnitz Pte. Ltd.
January 06, 2020
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Enel X enters e-mobility market in India through a joint venture with Sterling and Wilson
EnelX
February 06, 2019
Enel X, the Enel Group’s advanced energy solutions business line and Sterling and Wilson Pvt Ltd (SWPL), a Shapoorji Pallonji group company and India’s leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, entered into a joint venture (JV) aimed at accelerating the electric vehicle (EV) uptake in the Indian subcontinent. Term sheet for the deal was signed mutually by early 2019, following prolonged negotiations that began by end 2018, however COVID kept the official announcement in abeyance until Feb 2021.
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Tags: Mergers and Acquisitions, Mobility, Predictive Analytics
IJGlobal Awards 2024 – Asia Pacific Deal Winners
IJGlobal Awards 2024
April 09, 2025
Honored to share that two transformative projects I was closely associated with have been recognized at the IJ Global Awards 2024 in Singapore — a proud moment that reflects the power of collaboration, innovation, and strategic execution in the energy transition space.
Energy Transition Deal of the Year – Asia Pacific – Brookfield’s 400MW Solar Project | Bikaner, India
Solar Renewal Deal of the Year – Asia Pacific – Masdar’s 250MW Solar + 63MW BESS PPP | Bukhara, Uzbekistan
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Tags: Renewable Energy
Rising Star Finalist 2018 at S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards
S&P Global Platts
December 07, 2018
Vishwanathan Iyer, Head of Business Development at Sterling and Wilson, was named a Global Energy Awards Rising Star finalist by S&P Global Platts. Energy companies and professionals from 37 countries were selected as finalists for the S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards 2018. Established in 1999, the Global Energy Awards highlight corporate and individual innovation, leadership and superior performance in 19 categories that span the entire energy complex.
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Tags: Leadership
World’s EPC excellence for Solar and Storage Award by EESA (Eastern China Energy Storage Alliance)
Sterling and Wilson
June 30, 2018
Sterling and Wilson Hybrid & Energy Storage team awarded the "World’s EPC excellence for solar and storage" by EESA (Eastern China Energy Storage Alliance) at the Global Solar + Energy Storage Congress 2018. Senior management leader Vish Iyer received the recognition on behalf of Sterling and Wilson.
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Tags: Emerging Technology
Intersolar Award for Utility Scale Solar Power Project 2015 (India)
Energetica
December 04, 2015
Sterling and Wilson wins the prestigious Intersolar Award 2015 for Best Utility Scale Solar Project with their 11 MWp Total Turnkey Solar Project in Maharashtra. At the official ceremony, Vish Iyer who conceived and led the project from Sterling and Wilson accompanied by his team, received the award.
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IHS Markit ranks Sterling Wilson as world's largest solar EPC provider
PV Magazine
July 04, 2019
Initiated quarterly and annual certification with IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global) for the very first time in 2015 and by 2019, IHS ranked the firm as number 1 in the world. IHS rankings had a good credit rating equivalence of a impact on pre-IPO valuation of the firm, given that all competitors of significance rated IHS as the best renewable industry analyst.
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Tags: Construction, Emerging Technology, Leadership
Journey Giftwork Certified “People Manager”
Great Place to Work® Institute
May 06, 2019
“Journey Giftwork certified people manager” certification program by the renowned Great Place to Work Institute enables managers to assume responsibility for making a change, to create trust-based, high-performing teams.
The program includes a senior leadership orientation session, and customisation of the manager workshops based on client context. The managers undergo a structured 2-day Giftwork Training for Managers workshop, followed by 90 to 120 days of reinforcement initiatives with various touch points for the participants at regular intervals including review sessions to track action plans.
The intervention ends with measurement of impact based on feedback from teams of the managers who have undergone the program, followed by recognition and certification of successful managers.
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Tags: Leadership, Mobility, Renewable Energy
Will add about 3,000 MT capacity of green hydrogen and its derivatives in FY24: Jakson Green Global CCO
MoneyControl
August 08, 2023
Jakson Green, the energy transition platform of Jakson Group, is going to add capacity of nearly 3,000 metric tons (MT) of green hydrogen and its derivatives in this financial year, the company’s global Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Vish Iyer told Moneycontrol in an interview.
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ETEnergyWorld Podcast with Vish Iyer
The Economic Times
July 12, 2023
In today’s conversation, we will understand how green hydrogen derivatives can become key to meeting India’s energy transition goals, discuss the emerging global trends that we need to look out for, delve into gamechanger technologies and innovations in this space, and much more.
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India’s missed solar power target may bite hard as power demand soars in summer
MoneyControl
March 17, 2023
Capacity addition in 2023-24 may also remain at the same lukewarm level, at about 15-16 GW, unless the government tweaks policies, industry players caution.
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Corporates likely to invest INR 16 Trillion in green hydrogen in 10 years
Financial Express
March 17, 2023
The rising popularity of green hydrogen in the country would lead to an investment of about INR 16 trillion over the next decade across the value chain. However, the rising price of its production could be a dampener. Industry experts are of the view that a combination of technological advancements and regulatory support is needed to boost cost-competitiveness of green hydrogen in the country, compared with other energy sources.
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Jakson Green: Making big strides in the green hydrogen space
PowerLine Magazine
March 07, 2023
From an energy product firm in 1947 to a fully diversified energy group in 2022, the journey of India-based infrastructure major Jakson Group has spanned the fields of distributed energy, solar, battery energy storage systems and EPC over 75 years. The group has forayed into a number of green energy-related businesses over the last two decades, chiefly noticeable among which are its successes with solar module manufacturing, solar IPP, solar EPC and distributed battery energy storage areas within the renewable space. Recently, the group has carved out all of its green initiatives under a new venture, Jakson Green, a platform that focusses on the EPC, asset development and asset management of renewable energy projects including solar, utility-scale storage, renewable hybrids, waste-to-energy (WtE), fuel cells, green hydrogen and green ammonia; besides its plans for manufacturing of electrolysers in India. In an interview with Power Line, Vish Iyer, Global Chief Commercial Officer, Jakson Green, shares the plans of the new venture and his thoughts on the sector.
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Need govt push in domestic solar manufacturing, Single act for green hydrogen in 2023: RE Industry
The Economic Times
December 19, 2022
The government should push domestic manufacturing through incentives, support local production of polysilicon and wafer, and bring in a single powerful act for green hydrogen in 2023, according to renewable energy industry executives.
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Reaching the Tipping Point: Why Investing in Solar+Storage Makes Economic Sense for Mines
Renewable Energy World, Energy and Mines
December 10, 2018
Vishwanathan Iyer, Head of Business Development, Hybrid and Energy Storage at Sterling and Wilson, shares his views with Melodie Michel of Energy and Mines about the evolving economics of renewables in mines, and makes the argument that the storage price curve has reached its most attractive point yet
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Africa’s ‘largest’ battery storage project: Sterling and Wilson’s take
Energy Storage News, Solarmedia
May 31, 2018
Close on heels of its recent announcement on forming a new global unit focused on the hybrid and energy storage market, Indian engineering and construction multinational Sterling and Wilson, a major solar EPC, has won a captive solar-diesel-storage microgrid project in Africa, comprising of what is believed to be the single largest battery in the region to date. The project, won against stiff European EPC competition, includes around 30MWh of batteries spread across three sites with a single battery installation of 17MWh. The sites, located at an educational institution in Western Africa, are scheduled to start operations early next year.
Energy-Storage.News caught up with Vish Iyer, global head of business development, strategy and marketing for the Hybrid and Energy Storage division at Sterling and Wilson, to find out more
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Sterling and Wilson on its turn to decentralised power and energy storage
Energy Storage News, Solarmedia
April 18, 2018
The global energy storage and hybrid power space has witnessed plenty of action over the past year, with remote power specialist companies acquiring energy storage technologies and lithium-ion batteries continuing on their downward price trajectory. This has made more electrochemical energy storage installations possible globally in the last year than ever before. The latest entrant into this space is Sterling and Wilson, an Indian multinational engaged in engineering, construction, manufacturing and energy services, which recently announced its foray into hybrid power plants and energy storage solutions.
Energy-Storage.News caught up with Vish Iyer, global head of business development, strategy and marketing for the Hybrid and Energy Storage division at Sterling and Wilson, to find out more.
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It’s time for floatovoltaics
The Hindu Businessline
January 20, 2018
Floating solar plants should be looked at seriously, writes M Ramesh
As Vish Iyer, who heads Solar Business Development at Sterling & Wilson, notes, there exists not much data to arrive at an estimate of large-scale floating solar plants. Yet the industry is not so worried about the costs — it seems convinced that scale effect and on-the-hoof innovation will take care of the additional costs of the floating systems. As a thumb rule, the avoided cost of land offsets the impact of floating systems; only installation, maintenance and transmission will cost more.
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Entrepreneur Live! India Investment Forum 2023
Entrepreneur India Magazine
November 20, 2023
Entrepreneur Live is America’s top entrepreneur summit bringing together a powerful line-up of speakers. After International editions in New York & Singapore and Indian Editions in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Entrepreneur Live in its 6th edition in Mumbai brought together over 500 entrepreneurs and investors to establish new ties, form new avenues, create new investment opportunities, address complexities that affect the ecosystem and highlight the importance of entrepreneurship as means to address some of the most intractable challenges of society.
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NextGen Chemical and Petrochemical Summit 2023: Time for India to take up leadership role in hydrogen
India Chemical News
July 20, 2023
The fifth session emphasized on need for building infrastructure, indigenous production of raw material, improvement in technologies and building a complete hydrogen value chain
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Panel Discussion on Discovering Opportunities in India's Net Zero Target
Smart Cities India Expo
March 27, 2023
India’s largest Tech & Infra expo, the 30th Convergence India & 8th Smart Cities expo was organized by the India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO, Ministry of Commerce & Industry) and Exhibitions India Group (EIG). The expo is a hub for future technologies, innovation and everything that’s smart and sustainable. The 2023 edition showcased India’s Digital Transformation, with new use cases in the fields of Telecom, Satcom, Broadcast, Wired & Wireless Technologies, 5G & Beyond, Big Data and Analytics, AI, Robotics, Smart Homes, Security & Surveillance, M2M, IoT, Embedded, Blockchain, FinTech and Digital Gaming.
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ETEnergyworld Solar Power Congress: Energy sector leaders map growth path for renewables
The Economic Times
March 20, 2023
The annual event is a major platform for the energy sector professionals - including both policy makers and CEOs - to discuss and debate upon some of the most crucial aspects of the solar and allied renewable energy industries
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Argus Fertilizer Asia Conference 2023: India Subcontinent focus Panel - Energy Transition Focus
Argus Media
March 07, 2023
With the tides of trade in constant motion, the Asian fertilizer industry is facing new challenges and new opportunities for growth. Argus provided latest market insights, new products and business solutions from a line-up of expert speakers dedicated to themes such as fertilizer procurement, the energy transition to green hydrogen usage, key chemical markets and more
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HK Summit: ‘Energy storage is the next big opportunity’ | Infrastructure Investor
Infrastructure Investor
November 14, 2018
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Vish Iyer, Global Chief Commercial Officer, Jakson Green, at ET Solar Power Congress 2023
The Economic Times
March 29, 2023
Hear the interesting insights by Vish Iyer, Global Chief Commercial Officer, Jakson Green, at #ETSolarPower '23. Watch the Video to Know What He Quotes About Industry Trends!
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Panel Discussion on Green Hydrogen - A Key to Low Carbon Future
The Economic Times
March 17, 2023
Moderator: Prasanto K. Roy, Managing Director, FTI Consulting
Panelists:
Ajay Shankar, Distinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute and Former Secretary Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of India
Vish Iyer, Global Chief Commercial Officer, Jakson Green
Bimal Jindal, Head - Green Energy Development, Larsen & Toubro
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CEO Conclave - FKCCI Green Summit 2015 - Bloomberg TV
Bloomberg TV
June 19, 2015
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CEO Conclave - FKCCI Green Summit 2014 - Bloomberg TV
Bloomberg TV
July 24, 2014
Bloomberg panel discussion on the" Karnataka - The next RE HUB to contribute the energy security to the country
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