Mr. Ardeshir Contractor is the Founder & CEO of Kiran Energy. Founded in 2010, Kiran Energy is a solar energy utility at the forefront of India’s renewable energy market. Kiran Energy’s fleet of solar power plants are located in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. By 2013, it became India’s largest solar utility. Kiran Energy has operational joint-ventures with Mahindra & Mahindra and First Solar, USA. In its journey, the company examined and deployed multiple innovative products and also set early benchmarks in non-recourse project financing.nnMr. Contractor graduated with a B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ill Bombay in 1984 and a Masters in Science from Ohio State University in 1986, where he led a graduate team on development of absorption heat pump systems, a project co-funded by Batte I le and Gas Research Institute.nn