ARTICLE AD BOX
Kapil Sharma, Co-founder, Ursaa Energyworx
New Delhi : 1. What inspired the inception of Ursaa Energyworx, and what gap did you identify in India’s energy ecosystem?
Ursaa Energyworx was founded on a simple but critical observation that Electrification can scale rapidly, but without intelligence, it cannot sustain
India’s energy transition has largely been hardware-led, with significant investments in EVs, batteries, and infrastructure. However, there was a clear absence of an intelligence layer to make these systems predictable, efficient, and economically viable. Ursaa was built to bridge this gap by transforming EVs, batteries, and energy assets into data-driven, reliable systems.
2. How has your journey evolved in enabling businesses to transition to cleaner energy?
The journey has evolved from simply supporting clean energy adoption to enabling optimisation at scale. In the initial stages, the focus—through platforms such as Fleet Management and Battery Intelligence—was largely on creating visibility, helping businesses better understand and monitor their assets. Today, this has progressed to delivering predictive insights, optimising asset lifecycles, and building integrated energy ecosystems. The broader industry conversation, too, has shifted from questioning whether to electrify to focusing on how to make electrification both profitable and reliable. As a result, the role has expanded beyond enabling adoption to ensuring that clean energy initiatives drive measurable and sustainable business outcomes.
3. India is at a critical point in its energy transition—how do you see private players shaping this shift?
India is at a critical juncture in its energy transition, and private players are emerging not just as participants but as key enablers of scale, efficiency, and innovation. They are playing a pivotal role in translating policy ambition into on-ground execution at scale. Achieving India’s energy goals requires speed of innovation, technology-led solutions, and scalable business models—areas where private enterprises are driving significant momentum. Companies like Ursaa, for instance, are building what can be termed as an “intelligence infrastructure,” a layer that ensures energy systems are not only deployed effectively but are also continuously optimised for performance and efficiency.
4. What are the biggest challenges businesses face when adopting renewable and clean energy solutions?
The biggest challenge is not adoption but it is managing complexity and ensuring long-term performance. Despite strong intent, businesses face structural challenges:
* Unpredictable asset performance, especially batteries
* Limited real-time visibility into operations
* Fragmented systems across fleet, energy, and finance
* High lifecycle costs due to poor optimisation
* Operational complexity at scale
These challenges are exactly what our solutions across Battery Intelligence, Fleet Management, and Integration Management, are designed to address.
5. What misconceptions still exist about clean energy adoption?
One of the biggest misconceptions about clean energy adoption is that it is purely a sustainability-driven decision. In reality, it has increasingly become a core business decision, shaped by efficiency, cost economics, and long-term value creation. Clean energy today is not just about being environmentally responsible, but about being efficient, predictable, and economically viable. There are also several persistent myths—such as the belief that electrification automatically guarantees performance, that systems operate optimally once deployed, or that clean energy is prohibitively expensive. In practice, however, without the right layer of intelligence and optimisation, even clean energy systems can underperform and fail to deliver expected outcomes.
6. How is technology—data, AI, and smart systems—transforming energy management?
Energy is no longer just consumed—it is actively managed, optimised, and continuously improved through intelligence. Technology is fundamentally transforming energy systems from being static and reactive to becoming dynamic and intelligent. Through advanced platforms and solutions, AI is enabling predictive decision-making, IoT is ensuring real-time monitoring, and data analytics is driving continuous optimization. This shift empowers businesses to enhance uptime, reduce operational costs, and make faster, more informed decisions based on real-time data insights.
7. How is Ursaa helping businesses balance sustainability with efficiency and cost optimisation?
At Ursaa, the approach is rooted in the belief that sustainability without efficiency is not scalable, which is why both are enabled simultaneously. Operating at the intersection of sustainability, reliability, and economics, Ursaa’s solutions are designed to ensure that clean energy adoption delivers tangible business value. This includes extending battery lifecycles to reduce capital expenditure, optimising fleet utilisation to improve efficiency, and providing integrated visibility across systems to minimise inefficiencies. As a result, sustainability is no longer treated as a trade-off but becomes a key driver of operational excellence and cost optimisation.
8. What trends are you observing among commercial and industrial players in India?
The market among commercial and industrial players in India is clearly maturing, with businesses no longer questioning the need for clean energy but focusing on how to make it work more effectively. There is a noticeable shift in mindset—from mere adoption to optimisation, from cost concerns to a stronger focus on return on investment, and from standalone systems to integrated energy ecosystems. Companies are also moving away from short-term gains towards a more holistic, lifecycle-driven approach. In parallel, there is growing interest in areas such as battery lifecycle management, data-driven fleet optimisation, and circular energy models, reflecting a more strategic and long-term outlook towards energy management.
9. What is your vision for the future of energy in India, and Ursaa’s role in it?
The future of energy will not just be clean—it will be intelligent, circular, and deeply data-driven. That is the future Ursaa is building towards
Energy systems will move from linear consumption to connected, data-driven ecosystemsthat optimise performance across their entire lifecycle.
Ursaa Energyworx aims to be the intelligence layer powering this transformation, enabling reliable electrification at scale.
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