Enabling Energy Transition, One Step At A Time

Specialists in the Design and Execution of Low Carbon Businesses Based on Unique Business Models

Creating Innovative Businesses That Help Achieve
Sustainable Development Goals

LEADERSHIP

Ashish Puntambekar

Chief Innovation Officer

Ashish is a Mechanical Engineer from NIT Surat and an MBA from IIFT Delhi with over 20 years of experience in Strategic planning & Technology with various organizations including Reliance Industries where he served as Vice President of Strategic Planning for six different businesses including the Energy & Technology businesses.

He has also been principal designer for the following large Government projects :

  • 1.Defence Industrial Corridor – Concept design
  • 2.Gati Shakti – Financial planning

Govt. of India has invested over INR 40,000 crores  in initiatives directly conceived by him.

Dr. Manoj Kharkar

Senior Technology Advisor

Dr. Kharkar has a diversified and rich industrial R&D leadership experience across a wide range of chemical and biotech industry sectors at organizations such as Reliance Industries Ltd, Dow Chemicals, ICI, Ciba, Dr. Reddy’s, etc., as a career R&D professional.

Dr. Kharkar headed the Technology Lab at Reliance Industries for a period of 6 years where he guided hundreds of researchers and scientists working on various high technology projects.

Advisory Board

Advisory Board

Our advisory board is still being set up.

Given the unique and exciting projects and businesses that South Asia Renewables is engaging in, we expect to attract the best minds to our advisory board, which is likely to be in place soon.

Our board of advisors will consist of senior business leaders,  project finance professionals and senior scientists, each with over 20 years of actual corporate, project and technology  experience at Large companies.

The advisory board will add considerable value to our management team which has already executed projects worth in excess of US $ 300 million in their careers till date.

Board members will bring with them their extensive networks of financiers, senior engineers and scientists with decades of experience in clean energy & other advanced technologies.

Inter - Disciplinary Experience
Across Industries

South Asia Renewables can provide thought leadership across industries. This cross industry and inter-disciplinary experience of the team allows us to create sustainable solutions to the major challenges that confront the Global Energy Transition.

We ensure that our solutions are financially viable by Designing Industry 4.0 Business models around the Core technology solution.

We have provided solutions to the following verticals pertinent to the Energy Transition :

  • Energy
  • Transport
  • Banking
  • Cities
  • Real Estate
  • Food
  • Materials
  • Water
  • Biotechnology
  • Healthcare
  • Infrastructure
  • Education

Creating a Digital Business Model for a “Plastics to Fuels” venture

Some energy transition businesses like plastics to  fuels are not viable by themselves as the Infrastructure costs are considerable.

In such cases, we can enable improved economic viability through the use of tailormade  digital business models that stitch together value enhancing elements across industries.

Each case will be very different.

Work with us


We are always looking for highly talented individuals with diverse skill sets in the energy transition space.

If you have excellent conceptual capabilities and the requisite project experience with clean energy technologies and the clean tech ecosystem, do get in touch with us.

Summer Internships


Our Energy Transition projects are at the cutting edge of clean technology and our executives are experts in clean teach, digital business model design and project execution.

We have a limited number of summer projects / internship opportunities which are offered to the most deserving candidates.

Media & Conference Inquiries


We welcome interactions with the media, the energy industry and with everyone interested in the global energy transition.

For interviews and speaking requests and to know more about clean technology, Strategy and the Design of digital business models to catalyse the energy transition, you may reach out to us.

Reach us on Whatsapp @ 9867612368