ISUW 2024 Speaker

Yashraj Khaitan is CEO and Founder of M/s. Polaris Smart Metering Private Limited, an energy technology company founded out of Berkeley, California. The company develops and commercializes path breaking technology for a smarter electricity grid and energy analytics to help Utilities and Businesses radically reduce their energy losses. Yashraj started working on Polaris (earlier Gram Power) when he was 19-year-old and prior to that he worked on cutting edge solar cell research as a high school student. He completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California - Berkeley and then dropped out of his post graduate program to start and scale up Polaris. As the CEO, he focuses on partnerships, strategy and building the overall technology vision and portfolio for the company. While the company started off with building low-cost solar products and microgrids for rural electrification, it today is one of the market leaders for smart metering solutions for the national grid in India and is managing over 100,000 kW of power in over 15 cities across the country. Polaris currently has an order book value more than Rs 7500+ Crores Yashraj was honoured with the Global Indian Award by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and recently was also chosen in the Forbes 30 under 30 List 2019