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ACME generates, manages and conserves energy.

Empowering the global wireless industry with cost-effective, environment friendly and energy-efficient solutions, ACME Telepower helps save around 1000 million kWh of power and over 100 million litres of diesel every year.

Manoj Kumar Upadhyay ACME Tele Power Ltd.

Since its inception in 2003, ACME has strived to offer end-to-end green and innovative solutions to the telecom sector. It provides comprehensive passive infrastructure solutions to wireless telecom players both in India as well as overseas. One of its key innovations is the “Green Shelter”, a complete package to fit various environment and temperature parameters at telecom sites. It helps avoid the running of backup systems like diesel generators.

Manoj Upadhyay, the founder of ACME, has taken ACME to heights many aspire but eventually fail to achieve. ACME has presence across 17 countries today. Upadhyay says, “I have always remained determined to do something phenomenal in my area of business, than just something incremental.” This very determination has helped the brand become one of the world’s best.

Upadhyay embarked upon the journey of ACME with the objective of developing green technologies – offering energy efficient, cost effective solutions and increasing ROI, but today it is doing much more than that. It is actively pursuing alternative energy initiatives - fuel cells and solar.

ACME is constantly widening its horizons under the leadership of Upadhyay. All the activities, however, have the same goal. He says, “Our ultimate vision for ACME is to become the global benchmark for green energy solutions. First identify the problem and work backwards to design the customized solution which not only makes great economic sense to the customer but also addresses the well being of the society. ”

To fulfil this motive, ACME has developed an environment-friendly solution called Power Interface Unit (PIU) for the telecom industry. Before PIU, the industry players used diesel to install off-grid diesel base stations in villages beyond the reach of mobile signals and thereby increased the green house gas emmisions. ACME’s PIU base station has the potential to curb the total usage of diesel by 40 per cent, as it allows the base station to operate on solar power for 6-7 hours a day. This becomes all the more viable as the supply of power/ electricity is some parts of the country is negligible and PIUs majorly run on green power and solar energy.

Through various solutions that Upadhyay innovated in order to help telecom industry reduce its operational costs by improving energy efficiency, he eventually helped the industry in bringing down the cost of communication from Rs 16/- per minute to an insignificant amount of `0.16/- per minute.