IESA Student Competition

India Energy Storage Alliance

<IESA Student Competition>

Re-Imagining India’s Energy Infrastructure through Emerging Technology

Round One result has been declared

Finally, preliminary round of IESA competition is over. We appreciate efforts of all the participants shown in the process of evaluation. Winning team will work with CES/IESA team for the live project from 20th October to 20th November 2014.



Winner

We Fanatics

Welingkar, Mumbai

Prathmesh Pande

Harshavardhan V

Kasturi Pattalwar

About the competition

Customized Energy Solutions (Analyze. Simplify. Implement.)  www.ces-ltd.in  

PROVIDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS SINCE 1998

Customized Energy Solutions is one of the fastest growing energy consulting & services companies, operating in North America for the past 16 years.  Customized is working with over 400 clients across the value chain of electricity industry globally.  We started our India operations as Customized Energy Solutions India Pvt. Ltd in 2010. We work with commercial and industrial customers to help reduce their energy costs through better utilization of the energy markets and emerging technologies. We have helped bring innovative energy services such as demand response to India. We are pioneering in exploring integration of latest technologies such as energy storage, microgrids as well as smart grid maturity model to Indian consumers.

India Energy storage Alliance (IESA) http://indiaesa.info

The India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) was launched in 2012 by Customized Energy Solutions to promote Energy Storage and Micro grid technologies and their applications in India.  IESA does this by creating awareness among various stakeholders to make the Indian industry and power sector more competitive and efficient, and by promoting information exchange with the end users to assist with more informed decision making.  IESA also provides insights to technology developers and system integrators on the policy landscape and business opportunities in India through frequent interaction with key stakeholders. With response received from the storage industry across the globe, the IESA is quickly gaining a strong foothold across various stakeholders and technology providers. 

Theme of the Competition:

Energy storage is considered as the missing link for smarter grids and universal energy access. While, India is already a very heavy user of conventional energy storage technologies such as lead acid batteries, and is also adopting Li-Ion batteries rapidly for applications such as LED lights and telecom towers, in coming decade India could become a global hub for advanced energy storage technology manufacturing and deployment. With this, we would like participants in this competition to evaluate current Indian companies active in the energy storage, PCS (inverter) and microgrid segment. We anticipate the participants to provide a 10-15 page report on status of the market, ranking of companies and any trends emerging in industry (technology, applications, customer segments etc.) and future growth opportunities. Details of the task will be sent to all the registered participants in a separate email after registration.


Eligibility: MBA (any specialisation but inclined to Energy Management), M.Tech / MS in Power/ Energy or any other Master students pursuing energy related courses are eligible to participate.

Process:

  • Students can participate in a team of 2/3 members only.
  • Participation in the competition is on prior registration basis. All students need to register within registration deadline.
  • All registered teams will receive the Round One Task in their registered email ID. They need to submit the solutions within the deadline.
  • Only shortlisted teams will present to IESA/CES leadership team through conference call.
  • Winning team will get the opportunity to work with CES Emerging Technology team through a Live Project for a month.
  • Live Project doesn’t need any travelling or working at Customized Energy Solutions Office premises. But periodic telephone/conference call will be scheduled to interact with the team to know their progress and concern.

  Time Line:

  • Registration Deadline: 24th September 2014
  • Round One Task Release: 11th September 2014 (Round one Task will be sent to you within 48 hours of registration)
  • Round One Submission Deadline: 25th September 2014 (24:00 Hours)
  • Round One shortlisting: 13th October 2014
  • Presentation to IESA and CES Leadership Team: 16th October 2014
  • Winner declaration: 16th October 2014
  • Project Orientation and Knowledge Sharing Session: 17th October 2014
  • Live Project with Customized Energy Solutions: 20th October to 20th November 2014.

Rules and Conditions

  • The work/solutions/write up must be original by the students. Any copy paste or plagiarism will not be tolerated. But reference to any information/data is accepted. Source must be mentioned for all references.
  • Results declaration by Customized Energy Solutions/IESA is final.
  • Prize claim by the winning team will only be accepted after fulfilling all mandatory tasks mentioned by Customized Energy Solutions/IESA.
  • Project work or the work submitted by the team can be used for internal/external purpose by Customized Energy Solutions/IESA. No teams can reproduce the same without permission of Customized Energy Solutions/IESA.

Prize:

  • Winning team will receive cash prize of INR 50,000 on completion of Live Project.
  • All team members of the winning team will receive complementary pass to attend 3 days Energy storage India (ESI) Conference, Schedule at New Delhi, from 3rd to 5th December 2014 (http://esiexpo.in )
  • Apart from Winning team, 1st Runners up and 2nd Runners up team will receive “Certificate of Achievement” from Customized Energy Solutions/IESA.
  • Winning team will get “Certificate of Experience for the Live Project” from Customized Energy Solutions/ IESA on successful completion of Live Project.
  • Winning team will get access to IESA Recourse Section (online) for a month to work on live projects; the team will get mentorship from Consultants/Analyst from Customized energy Solutions to work for the project.
  • The Institute/ University in which the Winning team is studying will be part of IESA-Knowledge Partner Network (worth $1000 USD per year) for the next academic year. Currently TERI, GERMI and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are the part of IESA-KPN, apart from other Industry Members.

Contact: Mr. Debi Prasad Dash

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