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# Shilpan Shukla on Tal

## Headline

Urjapod \| IIM K \| Campus Fund \| Drashta Green Power Ltd \| Bits Pilani \- Goa

## About

Power plant consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry\. Skilled in AutoCAD, Photography, PTC Creo, SolidWorks, and ANSYS\. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani \- Goa Campus\.

## Location

Ahmedabad

## Work experience

Founder at Urjapod Energy, May 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Building India’s largest and most innovative energy storage company\.

Student Investment Fellow at Campus Fund, Sep 2024 \- May 2025 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Looking for energetic founder with great ideas to build tomorrow’s companies\. \-Sourcing and Evaluating startups \-looking for the Students and recent graduated with amazing business ideas

Energy Business Manager at DRASHTA POWER CONSULTANTS PVT\. LTD\., Jul 2019 \- Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 10 mos, Greater Ahmedabad Area, • Started a vertical to construct renewable power plants in late 2019\. Grew it to a revenue of 37\.9 Cr in FY 23 with 12 % PAT\. Developed a financial roadmap to build power plant assets for future growth\. • Provided techno\-commercial consulting and due diligence to Large industries, and Negotiated 25\-year Power Purchase Agreements \(PPA\) from wind\-solar hybrid plants worth more than 840Cr\. • Worked with CXO of Large Industries to devise a strategy to reduce power costs using Renewable Energy\. Consulting Role • Consulted GIDC to set up a thermal power plant for India’s 1st Common infra\-based industrial Bulk drug park\. • Developed a financial model and raised funds in a sweat equity deal for a 28 MW wind\-solar hybrid plant\. • Served as Consultant to Finland Pension Fund for identifying and evaluating investment opportunities in the renewable power plants in Gujarat and performed techno\-commercial commercial due\-diligence\. • Surveyed various MSME industry stakeholders, compiled and presented industry feedback on behalf of the GCCI’s energy committee on the Gujarat State Green Hydrogen Policy\. Business Development Role • Started the renewable energy subsidiary of DPCPL in December 2019\. Targeted residential rooftop solar construction segment and then pivoted to Utility and industrial\-scale for higher profitability and scalability\. • Empanelled with Tata Power for I&C work for a 300 MW solar plant at Dholera, Gujarat and Rajasthan\. • Won government tender to sell power from 8 MW solar plant\. Raised debt funding of 16 Cr for the same\. • Led the construction of 11 ground\-mounted solar power plants of a total of 38 MW by building a team of 8 engineers, and site managers, procuring equipment, and Liaising with government agencies\. • Implemented a central dashboard to monitor generation and faults from all solar plants from head office\. • Started content marketing through LinkedIn and YouTube, boosting company page visits by 1000%\.

Internship Trainee at Tata Motors, Jan 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 7 mos, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area, Working in quality department to reduce errors occuring on the truck BIW

Internship Trainee at Siemens A/S Turbomachinery Solutions, May 2018 \- Jun 2018 · 2 mos, Greater Vadodara Area, Developed a new electronic device for turbine alignment using Arduino and mpu6050 3 axis gyro accelerometer\. It reduces turbine alignment time to hours from days long ittrative process

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Postgraduate Degree, Business, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

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