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Ulrich Leibfried
Country: Germany
Year joined industry: 1994
Company first worked for: Consolar
Technology area: Solar Thermal
Still active in the industry: Yes

Ulrich Leibfried had been involved with RE research since 1980 when in 1994 along with three other engineers
founded the solar company Consolar GmbH in Lörrach and Frankfurt, Germany. Consolar developed, produced
and offered in the first years stratified storage systems and regulations for solar thermal installations (heating and
domestic hot water), later also evacuated tube collectors and solar heat pump systems with ice store. The most
important product of the last years (with worldwide patent application) is the PVT heat pump collector SOLINK
and systems with those panels as single heat source of a heat pump and covering its yearly electric consumption.
His main involvement has been in R&D however he has been involved with business management along with
overseeing of quality, purchase and production. His main concern is the transition of technologies, economies and
society to a system respecting planetary boundaries and life. Currently Ulrich is engaged in a network which he
initiated in autumn 2019, working for climate neutral communities.

Jaideep Malaviya
Country: India
Year joined industry: 1995
Company first worked for: Malaviya Solar Energy Consultancy
Technology area: PV
Still active in the industry: Yes

Since Jaideep Malaviya completed his three years as Research Scientist at TATA Energy Research Institute, New
Delhi, he developed his skills for solar Photovoltaics (PV) Systems Designing and Engineering as well as domestic
Solar Heating and started his own firm Malaviya Solar Energy Consultancy (www.malaviya.in). Jaideep associated
with Industry associations and manufacturers of solar PV systems and published an Engineering handbook
accredited by Department of Education. Since then he has conducted more than 500 training programmes with
the objective of guiding the industries in considering the right size of Solar PV system and justifying the economics.
Being a solar energy expert Jaideep did not discriminate within solar energy technologies hence equally was active
in developing domestic , industrial and commercial solution for solar heating with the objective of conserving fuel oil
as it was an import parity. Jaideep founded the Solar Thermal Federation of India (www.stfi.org.in) and aggressively
took the task of accelerating the market by addressing the policy issues. Today India is amongst top five countries
in solar energy development both PV and thermal. He continues to train technicians on Rooftop PV designing and
also undertakes mass scale business development events in industries. The Government of India has announced
its target of 300 GW of solar PV and 20 million sq. metre of solar thermal area as a future goal, so now Jaideep
is devoting his activities in establishing an effortless mechanism for end of life management of the solar waste by
inviting entrepreneurs to develop indigenous low cost portable recycling systems and set-up multiple collection
centres all over India to ensure reuse of all discarded solar energy systems waste instead of land filling thus address
climate change.

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