Kenergy Infra provides end-to-end wind farm infrastructure development and management solutions. This includes pre-development feasibility studies, wind monitoring, site design, civil works like roads and foundations, electrical grid connectivity, SCADA systems, and long-term operational management. Wind farm infrastructure such as civil works and electrical systems account for a significant portion of total project costs. Kenergy aims to reduce clients' startup risks and costs by providing turnkey infrastructure solutions and access to their expertise in development, permitting, and power agreements.
2. Introduction
Kenergy Infra provides Infrastructure Development and Management Solutions to Wind
Parks. As a end-to-end solution provide we build and operate Wind Parks for our clients.
Pre-Development Development Management
• Pre-Development • Civil Construction • Supervisory Control and
Feasibility Study (Roads, Drainages) Data Acquisition
(SCADA) system
• Wind-Monitoring • WTG Foundations
Solutions • Computerized Wind Farm
• Electrical Works
Management
• Wind Turbine Generator (Underground, Cable
(WTG) Structural Design Networks, Switchgear • Wind Data Collection &
and Transformers) Performance Monitoring
• Site Design Optimization
for each WTG
3. Wind Farm Infrastructure
The infrastructure constitutes a significant part of the overall project
cost: A typical breakdown of Wind Park Project
Efficient management of Wind Parks is
Civil Works the key for any wind-based power
8% generation plant to achieve targets
75%
WTG
Wind Turbine
12% Electrical Grid & Wind Park Management is beyond WTG
Generators Connectivity maintenance and allied factors like Civil
5% Works and Grid Connectivity and SCADA
play an important role in profitability
(SCADA) &
Miscellaneous
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
4. Pre-Development Solutions
• Feasibility Studies : Site analysis to determine wind project feasibility based on site inspections, wind resource
information, regulatory requirements, energy market conditions and renewable tax benefits, and discussions with
stakeholders such as local authorities, landowners, and electrical network operators.
• Wind Measurements and Analysis : performing direct wind measurements to augment available meteorological data.
This process could take a year or two depending on the quality of existing wind data.
• Backfeed, Power Purchase, and Interconnection Agreements : Agreements on grid interconnection and power
transport must address utility concerns regarding transmission capacity, reliability, and effects on grid operations.
Power purchase agreements can be simple energy-only contracts or more sophisticated arrangements that include
capacity, energy, ancillary services, dispatchability, and other grid support services
• Regulatory Compliance: Development of site as per the requirements of concerned departments of government
(Ministry of Environment, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Power and National Grid / State DisCom)
• Property or Land Agreements: Property or Land Agreements needed to operate large wind farms differ significantly
from that for distributed wind projects with many small clusters on farmland or other individually owned property.
Property arrangements typically must meet financial, environmental, zoning, and leasing objectives of the different
stakeholders.
5. Civil Works
• Site design and feasibility of construction
• Roads and drainage layout to support wind
turbine locations
• Wind turbine foundations;
• Met mast foundations (and occasionally also
the met masts); and
• Buildings housing electrical switchgear,
SCADA central equipment, and possibly
spares and maintenance facilities.
• Project Road Optimization: Review of turbine
locations and develop practical road layout
WTG Foundation
6. Electrical Grid & Connectivity
• Equipment at the point of connection (POC), whether
owned by the wind farm or by the electricity network
operator;
• Underground cable networks and/or overhead lines,
forming radial ‘feeder’ circuits to strings of wind
turbines;
• Electrical switchgear for protection and disconnection
of the feeder circuits;
• Transformers and switchgear associated with
individual turbines (although this is now commonly Support for Balance of Plant (BOP) and
located within the turbine and is supplied by the Turbine Supply Agreement (TSA) solicitation,
turbine supplier); negotiation and selection recommendations
• Reactive compensation equipment, if necessary; and
• Earth (grounding) electrodes and systems.
7. SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
• Central computer;
• Signal cables to each turbine and met mast;
• Wind speed and other meteorological
transducers on met masts; and
• Electrical transducers at or close to the POC.
• Wind Data Collection & Performance
Monitoring for each WTG
SCADA ensures that each WTG in the park is
working efficiently. The availability of
Maintenance maintenance depot within the site ensure quick
turnaround for any issues faced by WTG
• Maintenance Depot to for WTG overhauling
for blade cleaning
• Supervisors and technician crews for
preventative maintenance
• State-of-the-art Tower Cleaning
8. Development Solutions
• Basic and Detailed Engineering and Design: The conceptual design presented in feasibility study is evolved into a basic
design followed by detailed design. These stages incorporate technical details from the selected supplier of major
equipment. Often, cost-benefit studies are performed to optimize a design or solution.
• Contract negotiations: Contraction negotiations are required for the procurement of major equipment and construction
services.
• Project Management : The project management team will includes experienced project managers and project controls
(budget and schedule control). Additional support staff capability includes safety, procurement, logistics and quality. The
project management team advances the successes brought about during the project development phase.
• Site Management / Construction Management: Construction manager(s), field engineers, safety officer, logistics, quality
control and project controls officer to manage site during construction. The site team is an extension of the project
management team.
• Community and Agency Coordination: Construction Manager to coordinate many functions involving the local community
of government agencies, including local building inspectors and environmental/ safety agencies.
• Commissioning – Commissioning specialists will transition the project from a construction program into an operating facility.
Detailed Standard Operating Procedure provided to the Site Management team with training to manage the site.
9. COMPENSATION & KEY BENEFITS
Reduced Start-up risk
Pre-identified site with prebuilt soft - hard infrastructure
Feasibility Studies Conducted
Reduced Time Frame to initiate Projects
Wind Measurements and Analysis :Comprehensive wind resource assessment / study with complete analytical reports
Regulatory Compliance : All basic regulatory approvals for wind power projects available and access to services to get all
infrastructure clearance permits in-house(within the farm)
Electricity transmission and evacuation facility provided.
Backfeed , Power Purchase, and Interconnection Agreements facilitated
Roads and drainage layout to support wind turbine locations
Property or Land Agreements
Access to world class consultants for advisory (EPC , Financial , Legal, CDM etc)
Dual option : Lease / Outright
Single Window Clearance for Property Tenancy / Acquisition
Reduction in Capital cost ( considering 25% cost of project associated with infra cost )
Access to Our Power Trading Desk and Emission Trading Desk
Scalable (increase installed capacity as and when required )
10. Leadership Profiles
Vinay Rao Rashi Kapoor
Chairman & Managing Director Chief Operating Officer & Director Commercials
Mr. Vinay Rao is the Chairman and Managing Director of Kenergy Wind Ms. Kapoor is the Chief Operating Officer & Director Commercials at
Farms. Mr. Rao brings with him over 15 years of rich entrepreneurial Kenergy Wind Farms. An entrepreneur with a decade long experience in
experience in international business and technology. In the past he has various industry sectors of Information Technology, Consumer goods and
successfully launched international marketing, sales and distribution and energy and environment infrastructure. She has successfully started and led
information technology businesses with a strong focus on the Asian and companies of her own in the above sectors. Ms. Kapoor’s leadership,
European Markets. technology insight and operational expertise have strengthened Kenergy’s
culture of innovation, expanded the company into new markets, and
He also serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of M/s Kalima
extended its service portfolio and global reach.
Capital Financial Services Pvt. Ltd, a boutique environment consulting and
financial services firm serving clients in the international carbon markets. Mr. She has been a co-founder of the Company and responsible for the
Rao plays the lead role in defining the company strategy and in implementing administration and company’s day-to-day global operations, strategic partner
the Kenergy Wind Farms’ growth plans. He is known for his zeal to build alliances, investor relations, finance and corporate development. Her strong
sustainable businesses that act as a catalyst in collaborative growth of all Management skills have helped the organization to overcome challenges
stakeholders. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rao started New Alliances Marketing and bring motivation into each venture leading to creation of strong and
Company that created a niche for itself in the consumer durables industry. sustainable business models. Ms. Kapoor's leadership drives integrity and
commitment to all serving clients, investors and partners instilling a culture of
Mr. Rao holds a Masters degree in Business Administration with
agility, innovation and client satisfaction that uniquely differentiates the
specialization in finance.
company from its competition. She also is the director of M/s Kalima Capital
Financial Services Pvt. Ltd., partner director of E3x.asia and CEO of Vera
Exports International.
She holds a Bachelors Degree in Science and has done her Post Graduate
Diploma in Business Administration with dual specialization in finance and
International Business.
11. Leadership Profiles
Anju Mehrotra S. Madan Mohan Rao
Executive Director - Investor Relations Director - Projects
Ms. Mehrotra is Executive Director of Investor Relations at Mr. Rao is the Director of Projects at Kenergy Wind Farms. A veteran Chartered Engineer with
Kenergy Wind Farms. Ms. Mehrotra brings with her 17 years of almost 40 years of experience in the field of construction and design of a broad range of
Professional Business Experience in the field of Customer infrastructure projects. He has worked in the Middle East (gulf territory) and India and has
relations and business communication. In addition, she focuses therefore a wide understanding of the design standards, forms of contract and construction
on business development, expansion and alignment of key methods in these countries. Mr. Rao has strong interpersonal and communication skills and
corporate alliances to complement Kenergy’s portfolio of solution can lead teams of engineers and technicians and work well as a project manager of
offerings. She oversees all aspects of the company’s investor multidisciplinary teams. He liaises well with clients and utilities providers, statutory authorities
relations program, working closely with Kenergy’s executive team and other stakeholders. His approach is to solve problems, come-up with innovative schemes
to manage Kenergy’s relationship with the investment community. and to deliver cost effective solution for clients. He has capabilities and experience to develop
a team or group and is also familiar and experienced in business development within India and
Ms. Mehrotra has worked more than 17 years in the software and
capable of producing Pre-qualification Documents, Feasibility Studies, Technical and Financial
consumer durable industry with experience spanning a variety of
Proposals for Infrastructure Projects for different government agencies including liaise with
disciplines, including engineering, consulting services, sales,
clients and giving presentation, etc. Having worked for World Bank very early in his career , he
management and investor relations. She has strategic
is also aware of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank formats for submitting
management responsibility that integrates finance,
Technical and financial Proposals.
communication, marketing and securities law compliance to
enable the most effective two-way communication between a Previously he has worked for the Central Government of India and the Abu Dhabi Government
company, the financial community, and other communities. She is for infrastructure projects. He has a brief experience working in USA for engineering projects
actively responsible for the firm’s fund raising efforts .Ms. as well. Mr. Rao is the CEO of Racons (Company into consulting and implementation of
Mehrotra is also Aggregation Head of the Emission Trading various structure and civil related projects).
Division of M/s Kalima Capital Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.
He is a qualified govt. approved structured engineer, and holds a Bachelor Degree in Civil
She holds a Degree in Electronics Engineering and a diploma in Engineering, is a chartered engineer as well. He is associated with International Federation of
public relations. Consulting Engineers (FIDIC, Paris)
12. Leadership Profiles
Sritanu Chatterjee Ankesh Jain Navin Maganti
Executive Director – Structured Finance Independent Executive Director - Legal Independent Executive Director – Business Transformation
Compliance
Mr. Chatterjee is Executive Director of Mr. Maganti is an Independent Executive Director for
Structured Finance and Risk Management at Mr. Jain is an Independent Executive Director Business Transformation at Kenergy Wind Farms. He is
Kenergy Wind Farms. He is responsible for for Legal Compliance at Kenergy Wind responsible for creation and delivery of transformational
financial structuring of new projects and Farms. He is responsible for ensuring business processes that help in increasing shareholder
acquisition of Brownfield projects. He oversees statutory compliance of all matters and leads value. His responsibilities also include setting up and
the enterprise-wide risk management of the the corporate governance efforts to make monitoring of internal control & MIS mechanisms that
organization. He began his career as an Kenergy Wind Farms a trusted and increase efficiency and effectiveness of Kenergy’s
engineer in Polaris Software Labs. He has been transparent organization. Apart from business processes. Mr. Maganti brings over eight years of
instrumental in building software solution for conducting periodic risk assessment and practical Business Process Management (BPM) and
global financial institution in the area of private response plans he also helps the Management Consulting experience.
and retail banking space. organization in implementing standards
He has worked along leading technology organizations as
through compliance program.
Prior to joining Kenergy Wind Farms, he has SAP, Oracle and BMC in a multitude of industry verticals
worked with the Netherlands Development He has interned with Reserve Bank of India’s such as Financials, Consumer Packaged Goods and
Finance Company (FMO). At FMO he has Legal and Compliance Department and has Telecommunications. Earlier in his career, Mr. Maganti was
worked in structuring investment deals and have successfully completed a project on FEMA. In the Senior Consulting Manager at IDS Scheer, leading
done credit review for private sector banks in the the past he was associated with Obhan and business development and delivery of BPM, EA and SOA
South East Asian region. Associates (Delhi), Sushil Kumar Sinha solutions across North America and Canada. He is also on
(Gaya), Manish N. Jain & Associates the board of Confiance Group, a management consulting
Mr. Chatterjee is a BE in Mechanical (Ranchi), Foxmandal & Little (New Delhi). firm.
Engineering National Institute of Technology,
Bhopal and has completed Master in Financial Mr. Jain holds a bachelor’s degree in Arts Mr. Maganti holds a Master of Science in Business
Management from RSM Erasmus Universiteit, and has a degree in Law, LLB (Hons.) from Administration and an Information Technology degree from
the Netherlands. The National University of Advanced Legal Temple University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in
Studies. Electrical Engineering from Pune University in India.
13. Opportunity for Growth
• The capital cost of producing wind turbines has fallen • Mass production and automation have resulted in
steadily over the past 20 years economies of scale
• Turbine design has been largely concentrated on the • Since late 2008, global turbine prices have dropped by
three-bladed upwind model with variable speed and 18% for turbines to be delivered in the first half of 2010*
pitch blade regulation, manufacturing techniques have
been optimised
Estimated Investment & Employment Opportunities in Wind Energy Business
* New Energy Finance, Press release: Newly launched Wind Turbine Price Index
shows an 18% decrease in contract prices for delivery in H1 2010 (29 July 2009)
14. Growth of Wind Market in India
• Wind energy is continuing to grow steadily in India.
Ten year growth of Indian Wind Market
• Wind power capacity of 4,889 MW was added in the Cumulative Capacity in mw(1999-2008)
last three years, taking the total installed capacity to
10.2 MW on 31 March 2009, up from 7.8 G GW at the
end of 2007.
• Tamil Nadu, which maintains its position as the state
with the most wind power, with 4.1 G GW installed at
the end of 2008, representing 44% of India’s total wind
capacity
• New projects coming at Maharashtra, Gujarat,
Rajasthan and Karnataka, West Bengal, Madhya
Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
• The Indian government envisages the addition of 2 G
GW/annum in the next five years.
15. Policy Measures to Boost Wind Energy
• Concession on import duty on specified wind turbine Land Policies
parts
• The Ministry of Environment and Forests has issued
• 80% accelerated depreciation over one or two years guidelines for diversion of forest lands for non-forest
• 10 year income tax holiday for wind power generation purposes, particularly to enable wind generation
projects • Clearance of leasing and forest land for up to a period
• Excise duty relief on certain components of 30 years for wind developers
• Some states have also announced special tariffs,
ranging from Rs 3-4 per kWh, with a national average
of around Rs 3.50 per kWh Electricity Act 2003
• Wheeling, banking and third party sales, buy-back • In spite of its stated target for renewable energy to
facility by states contribute 4-5% of India’s electricity mix by 2012
• Guarantee market through a specified renewable • The Electricity Act also required the SERCs to set
portfolio standard in some states, as decided by the Renewable Portfolio Standards for electricity production
state electricity regulator by way of power purchase in their state.
agreements
• Reduced wheeling charges as compared to
conventional energy
16. Wind Density Map of India
Wind Power Density Map based on Data from 11 States & 2 UTS AT 50M AGL
Source: C-WET