Applied Solar Technologies rolled out its first solar RE solution in February 2007
{"Image DocumentName": "Applied Solar Technologies rolled out its first solar RE solution in February 2007", "Image ImageDescription": "Since then AST has become India\u2019s largest ESCO with over 3000 installations for the telecom sites, over 300 for ATM machines and over 80 petrol stations. Past six years have been full of learning. Diesel is the most expensive solution both economically and environmentally and it is the solution used exclusively when there is no other solution. We all strive to reduce diesel consumption to as little as possible. Power requirements for Telecom have a very high degree of uptime requirement (no more than 20 seconds of downtime in 24 hours) which makes the total cost of power very high. Furthermore this uptime can only be achieved with multiple sources of power and delivery of power as a service. Any solution to reduce diesel consumption is very capital intensive and so we must balance customer needs with the IRR needs of the investors and risk mitigation needs of the lenders \u2013 without this balance there is no business possible. Long term contracts become a necessity for capital intensive businesses.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}