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Pai Kane Energy designs and builds battery energy storage systems, pairing power engineering with battery technology and grid integration.
The story starts in 1989, in a garage behind the Pai Kane family home in Goa: minor engineering works that grew, over three and a half decades, into a global power engineering group serving more than 86 countries across power, water and infrastructure, with manufacturing in India, the UK and the UAE.
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For decades that meant gensets, compact substations, transformers and switchboards, powering Goa's Manohar Airport, a Formula 1 Grand Prix and ports across three continents. Build it to specification, prove it in the field, stand behind it for its life.
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The question is no longer only how to generate power, but how to store it, shift it and dispatch it exactly when it earns its keep. Pai Kane Energy is that discipline turned to storage: the next chapter of the same family, the same Goa engineering roots.
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Capability is communicated through engineering, execution and technical credibility rather than marketing noise, because that is how infrastructure earns trust.
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Products and communication that are minimal, functional and premium. The brand reflects the same clarity we expect from the systems.
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Integrated energy systems rather than standalone hardware: jobsite systems, stationary systems, integration and, in time, manufacturing.
Seven product families spanning a 25 A crane feed to utility-scale storage, dispatched by common energy intelligence and sized by a common method.
Specs are written as tolerances rather than suggestions, provisional numbers are marked as such, and anything that goes into a tender ships as a controlled datasheet.
Co-Founder & CEO
Ex-Apple, Intel · NITK, Stanford
Innovation and product design leader with 25+ years across Apple, Intel and entrepreneurial ventures, with a mechanical engineering foundation from NITK and a master's from Stanford. At Apple, he worked across product design and development from iPod Shuffle to iMac, before relocating to China to lead manufacturing engineering for the MacBook Air. At Intel, he founded and ran Ideas2Reality (I2R), an award-winning startup incubator across Intel China, rising to Director of Innovation. Advisor to Fortune 500s, startups, accelerators and academia, he pairs deep product and manufacturing experience across consumer electronics, AI, IoT and deep tech with a founder’s instinct for turning emerging technology into scalable products, now applied to energy storage at Pai Kane Energy.
Co-Founder & Chairman
CMD, Power Engineering (India) Pvt. Ltd. · Harvard
Electrical-engineering entrepreneur with 35+ years building Power Engineering (India) Pvt Ltd, which he founded in 1989 and grew into a manufacturer of generator sets, switchboards, and compact substations, now advancing into sustainable energy through alternate fuels, solar, and energy storage. Also owner of Ward Power Limited (Sheffield, UK), extending the group into international power engineering. Learning Chair at the Entrepreneurs' Organization (Goa) and an alumnus of Harvard Business School (OPM 55) and UVA Darden executive programs. Pairs deep manufacturing and engineering roots with a founder's instinct for emerging energy technologies.
Director & Partner
CFA, CPA · Macquarie, Lancaster
Cross-border capital advisory and investment specialist with 25+ years across capital markets, natural resources, and mid-market M&A. Co-founder and Partner at Auroch, an independent Mumbai-based advisory and investment firm, working alongside Sydney's Bligh Capital on the Indo-Australian resources corridor: iron ore, copper, coal, tin, and gold across Australia and Southeast Asia. Serves listed and private companies, funds, family offices, and HNIs as investment adviser, shareholder representative, and capital arranger. Founder and director of ventures across mining, real estate, agri-business, and fast fashion.
