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                                                                                     Our mission is
                                                                                     to provide solar
                                                                                     developers with
                                                                                     substantial
                                                                                     improvements in
                                                                                     their workflow. Our

                                                                                     offering in the form
                                                                                     of a Software as a
                                                                                     service (SaaS) model
                                                                                     incorporates the
                                                                                     best design practices
                                                                                     possible                      “


















              he SolarLabs is an enterprise  improvements in their workflow.      is an IIT Mandi EE ‘17 undergrad.
              with a vision to accelerate    Our offering in the form of a        He is a Solar Evangelist who wants
        Tthe pace of solar rooftop           Software as a service (SaaS)         to do his bit to save the world from
        adoption. We believe that this       model incorporates the best          global warming.
        goal can be achieved through         design practices possible. We exist
        innovative technology and            to serve a market in India that      Obstacles We Face Today
        services. Commercial buildings in    currently relies on rules of thumb   The rooftop solar market can be
        cities, Industrial sheds and even    and follows unreliable practices.    divided into 2 major categories.
        residential buildings can utilise the   Through extensive research of     EPC Developers that design and
        rooftop area to generate electricity.   market conditions and trends      install systems greater than 50KW
        This is achieved with the use of     the team behind The SolarLabs        usually have a pan India presence.
        photovoltaic solar panels. Albeit    software has delivered a great       Other smaller projects are
        unpopular misconceptions, it         product.                             carried out by developers whose
        is financially viable to install                                          operations are limited to cities
        such systems on roofs. Multiple      The Men behind                       in which they are found. Both of
        infrastructure development and       The SolarLabs has 5 Co-Founders.     them have different challenges,
        energy services companies have       They were batchmates in              though regulatory hurdles are a
        entered this market in the last      undergraduate college. Those are     common issue. For a while now,
        decade. The Indian solar market      Siddharth Gangal, Ankush Jindal,     the solar market has failed to
        has seen a tremendous growth         Ashwin A, Abhay Singh and            reach its full growth potential
        since 2012.
                                             Devang Bacharwar.                    due to bureaucracy at the Discom
        Our mission is to provide solar      Mr. Siddharth Gangal, the Co-        layer. Even though the central
        developers with substantial          Founder & CEO of The Solarlabs       government supports renewable
                                                                                  energy generation, certain arms
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