The Case for National Recognition
A contribution I believe India should honour
My work sits at the centre of two national priorities — energy access and Make-in-India manufacturing. I’ll let the record make the case:
I pioneered India’s solar-hybrid technology
The architecture behind today’s hybrid inverters — I built and patented it in India in 2009, years before global players commercialised it.
The highest patent filer in the industry
106 technology filings (77 at Su-Kam, 25 at Su-Vastika, 4 personal AI filings) — the largest, and only fully verifiable, single-founder patent record in India’s power backup and solar power sector.
I brought power to millions
Home UPS, Solarcon and affordable solar retrofits put reliable power into millions of Indian homes, schools and businesses — and exports to 90 countries.
I built genuine domestic R&D
The first real in-house R&D unit in India’s power-backup industry, where I trained a generation of Indian power-electronics engineers.
First in our industry backed by Temasek (2006)
In 2006 the Reliance-Temasek fund invested about US $10 million (₹45 crore) in Su-Kam — we were the first Indian inverter and solar company to attract investment from Singapore’s sovereign investor, and it was one of the largest private-equity investments in India’s power-backup sector at the time. (Business Standard)
Recognised on a global stage
Interviewed by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Indian innovation and intellectual property — alongside features in Forbes India and India Today.
After four decades of invention, manufacturing and energy access — and a patent legacy unmatched in my industry — I believe this work deserves to be recognised among India’s foremost contributions to solar power and power backup.