7/6/2017 Gmail - Interview Round for NIDHI-EIR Fellowship program

Abhijit Malankar <abhiam1@gmail.com>

Interview Round for NIDHI-EIR Fellowship program

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Abhijit Malankar <abhiam1@gmail.com> Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:09 PM

To: abhiam1 <abhiam1@gmail.com>

From: EIR EDC <eir@venturecenter.co.in>

Date: Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 3:16 PM
Subject: Interview Round for NIDHI-EIR Fellowship program
To: abhiam1@gmail.com

Dear Sir
We are happy to inform you that your NIDHI - EIR application at Venture Center has been shortlisted for presentation in
front of the Project Monitoring Committee (PMC) at Venture Center, Pune. Congratulations for reaching this stage.

The PMC meeting is on 8th June, (Thursday) from 9 am to 12:30 pm. No presence is required for the entire day, your
time slot shall be informed to you at a later date. Once the schedule is fixed, any request in change in timing will not be
entertained. The information is shared in advance so that you can plan your travel and related arrangements at your own
cost. Please note that the applicant can present his/her case in person or via Skype, however, based on our experience
we strongly recommend that the applicant should come in person for the presentation.

It is important to mention here that the PMC meeting has to be attended by the main applicant and shall be responsible
for the delivering on the project through the entire course of the fellowship. More than one person from the applicants
side is not allowed to contribute to the presentation.

The presentation is expected to be in front of the committee of roughly 5-6 members. The members are likely to look at it
from technical perspective, scheme mechanics, project execution and commercialization potential perspective. The
presentation is likely to be for 7 min followed by Q&A round for 02 min.

Please find attached the presentation template for the presenters to follow. You are requested to prepare a set of main
slides and keep additional back up slides to help you answer the questions.

Kindly mail your final PMC presentation along with your updated resume by today evening : eir@venturecenter.
co.in.
You need to also inform whether you will be presenting in person or via skype.

Please note that the focus of the main presentation has to be on conveying:

Clear definition of the project

Establish importance of the idea/proposed product/service
Establish technical soundness of the idea
Convey credibility and capability to deliver
Plan after EIR Fellowship program

It is strongly recommended that applicants endeavor to create a few back up slides directly addressing any concerns
raised by the reviewers.While all good proposals are considered for support, the no. of grants for this fellowship is limited.
So, please do invest efforts in sharpening your presentations.

Congratulations once again and good wishes for your preparation for the next stage.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this email.For any queries kindly contact me as per your convenience.

Regards

Amruta Gore

Asst. Manager Impact Projects

Venture Center,
100 NCL Innovation Park,
Dr. Homi Bhabha road, Pashan,
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Abhijit Malankar Invitation Letter
Apt No.769-04-05-03, WH
Mollwitzstrasse, Mollwitzstras- Conference: BMS College of Engineering,
se 3-5, Berlin, 14059, Germany.
Bangalore, April 23 25, 2015

Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Sup-
ply

Invitation to the international conference Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Sup-
ply, at the BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, April 23 25, 2015.

The BMS College of Engineering (BMS) is honored to welcome Mr. Malankar as a guest at the
international conference Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Supply, at the BMS Col-
lege of Engineering, Bangalore April 23 25, 2015. Mr. Malankar will participate in the business
plan competition (21-22/04). This will mean 1 training day (21/04) a presentation in front of a
high-level jury (22/04) as well as the three finalist presentations at the core conference days
(23-25/04). The title of the business plan to be presented is: Sustainable Ecosystem develop-
ment by Productive use of Renewable Energy and Financial Innovations

NAME: Abhijit Malankar, DOB: 13/12/1975, Passport No.: J8921331 (India)

We are looking forward to meeting Mr. Malankar at our symposium. The event is registered
with the Ministry of External Affairs. We expect more than 80 participants, with approximately
40-50% of them arriving internationally. The conference will focus on delivering clean energy
solutions to low income populations around the world.

Please contact us directly via phone (see details below) or e-mail (conference-
team@microenergy-systems.com) in case that there are any further questions.

With best regards,

Prof. Dr. K. Mallikharjuna Babu

Conference Organizer
Principal - BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore
1908 Bull Temple Road Bengaluru - 560 019 Karnataka, India
Email: drkmbabu@gmail.com Tel: +919483512589

http://www.microenergysystems.tu-berlin.de/conference/

Abhijit Malankar - Letter of recommendation

This summer it has been my pleasure and honor to coach Abhijit, or Abhi for short, on the Climate-KIC
summer school The Journey. From my first impressions of Abhijit I deduced that he thinks deep about
what he is shown or told, because he listens well and takes everything into account before drawing
uniquely insightful conclusions. For a person of his experience I know there were lectures and
workshops on The Journey that wouldnt necessarily challenge or engage him, but he always applied
himself and sought in every occasion an opportunity to learn and better himself. Uniquely Abhi is that
he combines a calm and patient manner with an extraordinary drive to accomplish his ideas. This gave
his team great strength and vision, also at times where pressure was high and uncertainty was great.

Early on in the Journey he had mustered a team around his idea called Uni5-Elements. Not surprisingly,
because he had a lot of knowledge about energy needs universally and the technology that could fulfill
them. His background includes practical engineering field work and start-up experience, altogether
making him perfectly equipped to bring Uni5-Elements into practice. The idea of modular & PnP kits of
green energy devices targeted at common individuals like us rather than just big energy utilities has a lot
of potential , and can improve the lives of many people. For the five week pressure cooker that is The
Journey, it was also to all-encompassing. Abhi and his team eventually came up with another energy
innovation that was simple enough to create a business plan for in short time. Without going into too
much detail I can tell it is a smart circuit breaker that makes offices more energy efficient at a fraction of
the cost of an equivalent office an automation solution. The idea won the innovation award at the final
pitch event of the journey.

I am pleased to know that Abhi has since returned to his mission of Uni5-Elements and is applying to the
Berlin Greenhouse. The conditions there are right for the scale of his idea, which could not be done in a
few weeks but certainly can be done over the course of a year. And with done I am not talking about a
rewritten business plan and some pictures, I expect Abhi to deliver working prototypes and field-tested
product given his skillset and connections all over the world . He could also greatly benefit from the
greenhouse to further his pitching skills and to frame the value proposition of Uni5-Elements.

Above and beyond his faculties Abhijit is a great person to work with; inquisitive, intellectually
challenging, original, thoughtful, charismatic and gentle. He is determined to make his idea into a
climate-saving and life-improving business and the Greenhouse could be a good stepping stone towards
that goal.

Best regards,

Bram vd Grinten

Greenhouse manager, Journey coach and design engineer.

bram.vandergrinten@climate-kic.org
+316 26 898 358
Sunday, July 13, 2014 Ref: Malankar, Germany, Policy

Dear Mr Malankar

I am delighted to inform you that the Technical Committee has approved your abstract for presentation
at the World Renewable Energy Congress WRECXIII, 3-8 August 2014 at University of Kingston,
London,

57- Sustainable Development using Decentralized Hybrid Renewable Energy based Micro-Energy and
Mini-Grid based applications through formation of Microfinance Co-operative Energy Society.
Abhijit Malankar.
Dipl-Eng,B.Eng,EPGDBM,Student of International Masters Program in Solar Technology at Global Production
Engineering -Technische Universitt - Berlin ( TU-Berlin). email -
malankar@mailbox.tu-berlin.de , abhiam1@gmail.com

In order to have your abstract appearing in the books of abstracts, and your paper and authors
appearing in the Congress Programme, you must register before the end of June 2014. Persons do
not register in time, their abstracts and titles will be removed from the programme.

Registration forms which do not include payment of the fee will not be processed.

Full paper: Authors of accepted abstracts will have the choice to submit their full papers
anytime from the acceptance of the abstract until the starting of the Congress. Papers will then
be reviewed by the Technical Committees and produced in the Proceedings. 50-papers will be
also produced in a special issue of Renewable Energy Journal. Details of how to write your full
paper can be found on our website under WREC XIII.
http://www.wrenuk.co.uk/wrecxi.html
I look forward to receiving your registration as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely

Prof Ali Sayigh

BSc, AWP, DIC, PhD, FIE, FIEE, CEng, M BWEC
Chairman of World Renewable Energy Congress
Director General of WREN
Address: WREN, P O Box 362, Brighton BN2 1YH, UK
T: 44- (0) 1273 625 643, F: 44- (0) 1273 625 768
Email: asayigh@wrenuk.co.uk http://wrenuk.co.uk or http://wrecuk.co.uk

PS: This is a common circular for the invited abstracts and other contributors abstract.


Research Group
Microenergy-Systems

Abhijit Malankar
Masters student at Technische
Invitation Letter
Universitt Berlin (TUB) ,Global
Production Engineering (GPE) Symposium: UC Berkeley, April 10 12, 2014

Triftstrasse 67
Innovating Energy Access for Remote Areas:
13353 Berlin Discovering Untapped Resources
Germany

Invitation to the international symposium Innovating Energy Access for Remote Areas:
Discovering untapped resources, at the University of California Berkeley, April 10 12, 2014

The Berkeley Rural Energy Research Group (BREG) is honored to welcome Mr. Malankar as a
guest at the international symposium Innovating Energy Access for Remote Areas: Discovering
untapped resources, at the University of California Berkeley, April 10 12, 2014.

Abhijit Malankar, DOB: 13.12.1975, Passport No. (Indian): J8921331

Mr. Malankar, will present his/her scientific paper, Sustainable Development using
Decentralized Hybrid Renewable Energy based Micro-Energy and Mini-Grid based
applications through formation of Microfinance Co-operative Energy Society, at the
conference.
We are looking forward to meeting Mr. Malankar at our symposium. Please contact us directly
via phone or e-mail (mes-conference2013@ztg.tu-berlin.de) in case that there are any further
questions.

With best regards,

With best regards,

Dimitry Gershenson (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Conference Organizer
Email: d.gersh@berkeley.edu Tel: 831-454-6818

http://www.microenergysystems.tu-berlin.de/conference/

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Institut fr Technischen
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25 March 2015 Fachgebiet Sustainable Engineering

Recommendation for Climate-KIC Summer School -The Journey 2015
Funktion
Dear Sir / Madam, Lehrbeauftragte.
Dr. Ing Elisabeth Strecker
I am writing this letter to recommend Mr. Abhijit Malankar as a participant
Sekretariat Z1 Raum Z 103
for Climate-KIC Summer School - The Journey 2015. I know him as a Strae des 17. Juni 135
student of the International Masters Program (2013) in Solar Technology at 10623 Berlin
Global Production Engineering (GPE), TU Berlin, Germany.
Telefon +49 (0)30 314-21696
Telefax +49 (0)30 314-21720
Mr. Malankar holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering from info@see.tu-berlin.de
Pune University, India and a Diploma in Industrial Electronics. He has also
completed an Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management
(EPGDBM) at Symbiosis International University, India. Mr. Malankar has
around 5 years of rich on field team work experience in sustainable
ecosystem and applications development / Corporate Social
Responsibility(CSR) , working with an environmental NGO ARTI in India .

Out of his active interests in entrepreneurship, gaining Intercultural

competence, International business , sustainable development and climate
change mitigation, he has opted for subjects like Energy Entrepreneurship
and Rural Electrification, Solar Market and Business Management,
Environmental Management, Environmental Management Tools &
Sustainable Approaches and Tools, in the Solar Technology program at TU
Berlin.

Mr.Malankar has received an overall grade of 1.8 in his masters studies till
date and has also successfully been part of diverse International teams in a
number of projects in his Masters program to design and present Business
cases / models, namely for the subjects like Energy Entrepreneurship and
Rural Electrification, Concentrated Solar Power, Sustainable approaches
and Tools and Renewable Power Technologies.

He is a sincere and attentive student and likes to take initiative working with
a team in any new task that is presented & is self motivated to successfully
complete all the tasks he undertakes. He likes to share ideas , listen to
viewpoints , get to know new people ,has excellent social and team working
skills. His participation and contribution both in classroom sessions and
during the field trips has been equally impressive.
During interactions with Mr. Malankar over a period of time during the
classes of subjects he attended and that I taught like Environmental
Management , Environmental Management Tools & Sustainable

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Approaches and Tools , I came to know about his motivation and passion is to make
constructive use of sustainable technologies in entrepreneurial ways to ensure long-term
energy sustainability and by generating sustainable local employment opportunities for
communities and to develop and transfer innovative, sustainable technologies to the less
privileged and isolated rural people, thus helping to improve their overall quality of life. Out of
these interests Mr. Malankar has been actively working with an environmental NGO called
Appropriate Rural Technology lnstitute (ARTI, www.arti-india.org) over the last 5 years .Some
time back he has also participated and completed a Government of India - Department of
Science and Technology (DST) sponsored Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship
Development program to improve his skills and professional networks in this field .

He has also presented a number of papers and business models on the theme of Sustainable
ecosystem development through productive use of renewable energy and financial innovations
in International renewable energy symposiums like MES 2014/15
(http://www.microenergysystems.tu-berlin.de/conference ) and also at World Renewable
Energy Congress XIII 2014 London (www.wrecuk.co.uk).
Through his thoughts and actions it is very clear that he is willing to think out of the box, taking
extra efforts to change things for the better and accept the challenge to bring them into reality
by his entrepreneurial attitude, enthusiasm and creativity. He indeed comes across as a
committed climate crusader through his consistent efforts towards ensuring a sustainable future
for all levels of the society .

During his projects ENGO ARTI he has been part and worked closely in teams of multicultural
groups with diverse nationalities & career levels as a team member , working together to
realize common goals and share ideas .It has helped him to understand how to work
comfortably in a team with people of diverse fields and also learn from the different expertise
and views of team members .

Through the number of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects he has implemented
together as a team member while working with the ENGO-ARTI he has learned that how
teamwork improves groups synergies ,supports a more empowered way of thinking & working,
helps to remove barriers and constraints , promotes a flatter and leaner organization, with no
hierarchis , encourages multi-disciplinary work where teams cut across organizational divides
effortlessly , fosters flexibility and responsiveness, especially the ability to respond to changes
faster, finally generating a sense of team achievement, equity and camaraderie, so much
essential for a developing a motivated team work atmosphere.
Earlier to this while working with the environmental NGO - ARTI , he and his team had taken on
the responsibility to help them set up an e-commerce website for sale of various sustainable
products online which helped them to increase sales and income and avoid closure of there
production unit. Mr.Malankar was instrumental in this entrepreneurial activity in setting up the
online clean energy business from scratch handling responsibilities like procurements, site
publishing , e-commerce and logistics.( website link -
http://www.indiamart.com/samuchitenvirotech/biomass-fueled-cooking-devices.html ).
Earlier to this he had also setup an E-commerce venture as a sole promoter and entrepreneur
to sell Handicrafts , handcrafted ethnic Pearl Jewelry sourced from skilled rural craftsman
ensuring them sustainable employment all year round ,using the (www.martjack.com) e-
commerce platform. Here he along with his team of social workers were responsible for market
research, human resources, procurement and online sales. He has been associated earlier
with similar entrepreneurial ventures and the knowledge and exposure he stands to gain from
the Climate KIC Summer School 2015 will indeed help him better structure his
Entrepreneurial vision for sustainable ecosystem development and climate change mitigation
while also enhancing his realm of ideas and help to increase his network with like minded

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colleagues.Through the opportunity of participation in Climate KIC Summer school - The
Journey 2015, I am sure he will get the opportunity to work closely in International and
multidisciplinary groups , network with and relate personally to like-minded peers at all career
levels, learn the International climate change mitigation policy framework , gain ability to
develop and deliver ideas ,products and services in response to climate challenges .Most of all
he will get an opportunity to create a unique business idea working together with a like minded
peers related to climate change adaptation and mitigation supported by business coaches ,
entrepreneurs and climate innovators all helping to finally pitch his teams idea as a potential
business venture and receive very valuable feedback.

I also believe that the Journey 2015 will give him the opportunity to interact with diverse
academic and business partners, give access to professional opportunities in clean energy
businesses and alumni networks along with participation opportunity to interact with
entrepreneurs and climate innovators , which can go a long way to help him to better plan and
realize the potential of his entrepreneurial ideas , get a team together of like minded individuals
and bring the clean energy business ideas to the market faster and in a more systematic and
structured manner . Also i sincerely feel , it is essential for him to be a part of a team and a
support network which shares his motivation and field of work in clean energy entreprenuership
& business so he can learn from there practical experiances and quickly look for support and
guidance without giving up when he needs it the most and i hence think Climate KIC summer
school and journey is the right platform which will provide him all of this to sustain and grow.

Mr. Malankar has often expressed his keen desire to pursue in the sustainable development
field as a clean energy entrepreneur and considering his entrepreneurial spirit,open-
mindedness, team spirit eagerness to learn new skills as well as his training in Business
Management combined with the on field experience he has gained with ENGO-ARTI, I am sure
that he is bound to succeed in all the ventures he undertakes henceforth as well .

Hence I highly recommend Mr. Abhijit Malankar without any reservations to your prestigious
Climate KIC Summer School - The Journey Program 2015 , since I truly believe he will be
able to make the best use of its Innovation and Entrepreneurship streams staying true, at the
same time towards his commitments to the Community and Society as well as stay on course
in his journey as a climate crusader .
He has all my best wishes and support for the entrepreneurship ventures he intends to start for
sustainable development and climate protection.
Please feel free to communicate with me regarding this recommendation and any other
information that might be helpful.

With Best Regards

Dr.-Ing. Elisabeth Strecker , Lecturer

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Empowering People Award 2015 Team

Siemens-Stiftung

18 January 2016

Letter of recommendation for Mr Abhijit Malankar

To Whom it May Concern,

We are writing this letter to recommend Mr Abhijit Malankar, for his Sustainable Energy Ecosystem
development based solution entitled Sustainable Ecosystem Development by Productive Use of
Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles abbreviated as EVRUEL through his social enterprise venture
UNI5-Elements to the Empowering People, Award 2015 by Siemens-Stiftung.

We know him as an associate member of our Climate KIC organization (www.climate-kic.org/), Berlin
chapter and also as a student of the International Masters Program in Solar Technology at Global
Production Engineering (GPE), TU Berlin, Germany where he is writing his Masters thesis focused on
EVRUEL which is being submitted for this award. Earlier to his Masters at TU Berlin, he has almost 10
years of excellent work experience in software quality assurance and sustainable energy domains in
International corporations and also holds a diploma in Business management from SIBM (India) and a
Bachelors in Electronics Engineering. He is also Six Sigma Green Belt and ISTQB certified Quality
Engineer.

Based on his research over the last 3 years, he has developed a very detailed business model oriented
solution titled Sustainable Ecosystem development by productive use of Renewable Energy and Electric
Vehicles (EVRUEL) which is focused on multiple aspects for empowering rural and urban locations
worldwide through use of renewable energy such as:

- creating local jobs by enabling local entrepreneurs as franchises thus avoiding migration of
rural population to urban areas in search of jobs ,

- energy inclusivity through use of renewable off grid generation and DC micro-grids,

- enabling faster and cleaner mobility using Electric Vehicles for passenger and goods transport,
reducing carbon emissions and providing viable alternative to fossil fuel transport thus
promoting local economic growth

- empowering local entrepreneurs by an inclusive development model

 - using energy availability through renewables and financial innovation for creating local small
scale sustainable industry and improving local trade, commerce and economy,

- creating a highly scalable and replicable solution based on hub and spoke model ,

At scale this EVRUEL solution has a potential to be implemented at nearly 50,000 sites in India over
next 5 years, with total of almost 5 GWp Off grid Solar PV + Small wind + BioGas based generation
facilities and nearly 0.5 million Electric Vehicles deployed on the road, together saving almost 5 million
metric tons of Co2 emissions / year. As a first step to showcase a proof of concept to Green Investors ,
Mr Abhijit Malankar has designed a scaled down version of the project for pilot implementation in the
target location of the coastal rural village of Alibaug, in the State of Maharashtra at a cost of just
$250,000. For financing this pilot, Mr Abhijit Malankar is in touch with various Clean Energy promoting
organizations including the India Innovation Lab for Green Finance (http://greenfinancelab.in/) which
is a sister initiative of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance and Echoing Green Org.
(www.echoinggreen.org/) while receiving ongoing mentoring support from our Climate KIC organization
(www.climate-kic.org/).

Incidentally his Masters thesis at TU Berlin is also based on business model of EVRUEL project which
has received technical guidance and review support from Faculty of Engineering and Environment at
Northumbria University, UK and the manufacturer Mahindra and Mahindra who are the only
mainstream Electric Car manufacturers in India through their group company Mahindra Reva
(www.mahindrareva.com) . He also received support from the University of CaliforniaLuskin Center
for Innovation (www.luskin.ucla.edu/content/luskin-center-innovation) and from Technische Universitt
(TU) Berlin.

Mr Abhijit Malankar has recently won the audience award in August 2015 during presentation held at
University of Warwick (UK) of the EVRUEL business model while completing the summer school for
clean technology innovation (www.climate-kic.org/global-summer-school/) which focuses on creating
clean tech entrepreneurs by teaching them principles of Lean Scientist , Design Thinking and
Entrepreneurship over 5 weeks while travelling through 3 countries (NL-HU-UK).

Earlier still in April 2015 , his team UNI5-Elements won the best green business model prize for the
above EVRUEL business model solution at the MES 2015 conference (www.microenergysystems.tu-
berlin.de/conference/) jointly organized by Berkeley Rural Energy Group at UC Berkeley and TU Berlin,
thus giving further credit to the practical business model solution he has put together.

Coming from a developing country like India, his social background also gives him the necessary
understanding of the actual grass-roots conditions so very essential when designing technologically
appropriate sustainable solutions. He is also a very motivated and committed social entrepreneur with
very strong team building skills demonstrated in putting together his social enterprise venture called
UNI5-Elements for which he is at the moment striving hard to put in place the necessary funding to
run a pilot project of EVRUEL in coastal rural village of Alibaug in India which is highly energy poor and
thus lacks local industry and commerce.

We at Climate KIC organization hence sincerely recommend Mr Abhijit Malankar without any
reservations, for the Empowering people Award 2015 by Siemens-Stiftung. We trust he will make the
best use of this award to empower people at the bottom of the pyramid in developing countries
through his planned venture of EVRUEL through social enterprise of UNI5-Elements. He has all of
our best wishes and support for the entrepreneurship ventures he intends to undertake for sustainable
development and climate change mitigation.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me regarding this recommendation and any other
information that might be helpful. We wish him all the very best in his application to Empowering
people. Award 2015 .

Kindest regards

Gareth Wakeling
Education Manager, NL