Executive overview
India’s grid is entering a new operating reality
DSM exposure, RTC and FDRE compliance, missed arbitrage, unmanaged peaks and procurement complexity are compressing decision time. Winners will need real time intelligence, not spreadsheet-era operations.
Tighter DSM regimes, RTC/FDRE obligations and market volatility are turning renewable dispatch into a real-time control problem.
C&I consumers face unmanaged peaks, procurement complexity and missed arbitrage when renewable supply is not market-aware.
PRODUCT MARKET FIT
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Uncertain RE dispatch forecasts
Gains desired: reduce DSM exposure, predictable PPA output for RTC / FDRE / C&I, and bankable forecasts.
Arkco solves with
Co-optimisation engine, real-time scheduler, auto pre-dispatch re-bid, long-range backtests, SCADA / EMS integration, and deviation minimisation loops.
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Trading market volatility
Gains desired: higher predictable revenues, lower DSM penalties, and better reporting across day-ahead and intraday operations.
Arkco solves with
Market price AI forecasting, automated bid optimiser, BESS-based arbitrage, early-warning systems, KPI dashboards
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Rapid regulatory change
Gains desired: trading automation, scale without headcount, and predictable power procurement for C&I customers.
Arkco solves with
Auto-bidding agent, fleet-level control, portfolio manager for trading, energy derivatives and short-term PPA decisions, regulations coded into automation, and ancillary-services readiness.
PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE
Four intelligent layers
A SaaS-managed operating stack packaged for India’s renewable portfolio-level operations.
The India Pilot
FORECASTING ACCURACY
27.45%
MAE improvement — day-ahead forecasts
29.57%
MAE improvement — 90-minute RTM
Day-ahead
90-min RTM
p < 0.001 • statistically validated
DSM PENALTY REDUCTION
Reduction in DSM penalty exposure
44.9%
Pool-adjusted DSM
47.88%
SPV-level DSM
Key insight: the hybrid AI approach outperformed benchmark methods and improved commercial settlement performance across day-ahead and intraday horizons.
Deployment-ready use cases
Real-time AI dispatch optimisation across evolving weather, commercial, grid and settlement constraints.
DSM optimisation for RE generators
Day-ahead and near-time forecasts connected directly to dispatch scheduling.
Demand side optimisation for Heavy industries
Load forecasts & scheduler. Load shaving/ shifter with Behind the meter BESS
Contract compliance
FDRE, RTC and VPPA output shaping with PPA compliance management.
BESS dispatch
Energy market-aware BESS dispatch and renewable output shaping.
Trading optimisation
Loop-control optimisation to site EMS for market-aware trading.
Rescheduling
Real-time dispatch rescheduling with penalty and re-bid automation.
BESS Optimiser
Turns battery storage into a flexible, revenue-generating asset by combining optimisation, market access and lifecycle-aware control. BESS participates across arbitrage, ancillary markets, FDRE/RTC output shaping and DSM mitigation.
THE ARKCO TEAM
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Sidharth Charkha — Cofounder and CEO
Sidharth brings 16+ years of experience in renewable energy and automation sectors. An engineer and alumnus of IIM Indore, he led Mahindra Susten’s international foray into Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. He has worked extensively and developed products in IoT and SCADA domains and been a cofounder of an Agritech startup. He brings his product development experience, industry expertise and deep professional networks supporting business growth and strategic partnerships.
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Timothy Edwards — Cofounder and CTO
Timothy brings 35+ years of deep technical and leadership experience across Australia’s energy and mining sectors. A qualified electrical engineer, he led multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects and pioneered AI-based energy forecasting. His patented innovations in predictive analytics have matured and are harmonising large scale renewable portfolios over 16 years in Australia's complex grid, for which he has been awarded 'WA Innovator of the year' and has many publications on predictive AI for energy and Energy efficiency to his name.
From forecasting to automated operation
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PREDICT
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ORCHESTRATE
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OPTIMISE
CONTACT
contact@arkco.ai
Arkco Private Limited,
Level 11, Platina, C-59, G-Block BKC, Bandra (East), Mumbai 400051.
+91-22-6884-1418
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