New Delhi, Luminous Power Technologies, through its renewable energy subsidiary, designs, manufactures, installs and maintains off-grid and grid connected wind-solar hybrid power plants. These state-of-the-art power plants generate electricity from wind and sun, and supplement any energy shortfall with short operations of diesel power controlled by a specially designed proprietary master controller. The master controller allows for continuous remote monitoring of the performance of these power plants, and storage of real time and historical data through GPRS/ Internet for display anywhere in the world.

This enables generation, storage and delivery of electricity at remote locations where grid connected electricity can not be reached. States Mr Rakesh Malhotra, Founder & CEO, Luminous Power Technologies, We are pleased to have independently developed the technology for environment friendly captive power generation. Such solutions, which also reduce operational expenses, are increasingly becoming popular across the world, in both developed and emerging economies.

Hybrid power plants have found applications in both rural and urban electrification, for street lighting, water pumps, mobile phone and communication towers. Luminous exports wind turbines, wind turbine controllers, solar controllers and wind-solar-diesel master controllers to countries such as Italy, Uzbekistan, Iran, Fiji, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, amongst others. Luminous is the primary supplier of small battery charging wind turbines to Nokia Siemens Network, Finland for installation at their remote mobile phone towers which replaces their existing diesel generators.

Luminous manufactures small wind turbines, wind controllers and solar controllers at its plant in Pune, and has CE certification for all the small wind turbines, wind controllers & solar controllers. The CE certification, recognized internationally, certifies electrical safety in operation and zero radio interference of the equipment. Luminous also has IEC certification, which is for small wind turbines in Asia. The Whisper 200 (1KW small wind turbine), has been tested by center for Wind Energy Technology (CWET), Government of India and IEC61400-12 & IEC61400-2 for the performance and safety operations of these small wind turbines.

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About Luminous Renewable Energy Division

Luminous Renewable Energy is a division of Luminous Power Technologies, which is a USD 250 Million SAR group company. SAR group has R&D and manufacturing operations for power backup, power storage, distributed power generation, renewable and alternate energy solutions, physical infrastructure solutions for IT & Telecom, Engineering design & support services, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and mobile phones & accessories. SAR group has a presence in 36 countries across the world with manufacturing facilities in India and China. Luminous is ISO 9001-2008 certified company.