Last Updated on November 13, 2025 by Author
Q1. How would you articulate your company’s mission and vision, and what strategies do you use to ensure these core values are consistently reflected in your products and services?
At Photom Technologies, our mission is simple: to make clean energy infrastructure smarter, more autonomous, and truly sustainable. Our vision is to become the performance backbone of renewable energy assets worldwide by combining robotics, data intelligence, and circular practices. We stay rooted in our mission by focusing not just on technology, but on solving real operational pain points like energy losses, water usage, labor dependency, and lack of visibility.
Every product we build, whether it’s a robotic cleaner or an AI dashboard, is designed to deliver tangible performance, scalability, and environmental impact. Our team is constantly on the ground working with plant operators, studying system behaviour, and improving the product in iterations. That customer-first lens helps us in bringing our core values into daily actions.
Q2. Which area within the renewable energy sector does the company primarily focus on: solar energy, energy storage, or another specific technology?
We’re deeply focused on the solar energy sector, specifically in the areas of O&M automation, asset performance optimization, and emerging circularity. Over the past few years, we’ve developed and deployed autonomous robotic cleaning systems across ~950 MW of solar plants in India. We’re now expanding into overall asset performance management and solar panel recycling both adjacent extensions of our value chain focus. So while our roots are in solar, our branches are growing into performance and lifecycle management for broader clean energy systems.
Q3. In what way does AI and machine learning currently play a role in your products or services, and how do you foresee these technologies influencing your operations in the future?
AI and ML are core to how we manage complexity and scale. Our Asset Performance Management System (APM) uses machine learning models to predict cleaning schedules based on dust levels, weather data, and performance loss patterns. It also analyzes system behaviour to detect anomalies and suggest preventive actions helping operators move from reactive to predictive O&M. In the future, we see AI extending into autonomous diagnostics, multi-plant portfolio optimization, and even intelligent lifecycle management, where AI helps decide when and how to repurpose, recycle, or replace a component. As our system scales, we believe AI will be the layer that connects devices, decisions, and sustainability together.
Q4. How do you view the global transition towards a net-zero economy, and in what ways does your company align with or contribute to this objective?
We view the net-zero transition as both urgent and opportunity. It’s no longer just about deploying renewables. it is about making those assets resilient, efficient, and sustainable.
Photom contributes in three key ways:
- We improve energy yield through autonomous cleaning, reducing wastage.
- We save drinkable water by replacing manual, water-based cleaning.
- We’re building recyclable and modular systems, and working on panel recycling to
address the end-of-life problem before it becomes a crisis.
Our roadmap is designed to support asset owners, IPPs, and governments in hitting their performance and ESG goals simultaneously.
Q5. What are the most significant challenges your company is currently facing in the renewable energy sector, and what strategies are you implementing to overcome them?
Like many climate-tech companies, one of our biggest challenges is balancing rapid product development with affordability at scale. The market needs cutting-edge solutions at a price that works for emerging economies. We’ve addressed this by shifting to a service-based business model offering Robotic Cleaning-as-a-Service (RCaaS) and SaaS licensing for APM platform. This reduces entry barriers for customers and gives us predictable recurring revenue. On the technical side, we’re constantly improving durability and reliability through real-world testing and feedback from field teams. We’ve also begun building local manufacturing partnerships to control quality and costs as we scale.
Q6. How do you envision the company evolving over the next few years, and are there any innovative projects or product launches on the horizon that your clients should be aware of?
We see Photom evolving into a performance management platform for renewable energy systems a layer that not only monitors but acts, predicts, and sustains energy assets.
On the innovation front, we’re launching our AI-driven Energy Management System (EMS) that intelligently integrates rooftop solar, BESS, and grid usage for small and mid-scale customers. We’re also in R&D for a solar panel recycling system that uses robotics to safely dismantle and recover materials. We believe the next few years are about closing the loop by ensuring clean energy is not just deployed, but optimized and sustained throughout its lifecycle.
Q7. What are the company’s strategic goals for the renewable energy sector, both in the short-term and long-term, and how do you plan to achieve them?
In the short term, our focus is on scaling our RCaaS and AMS platform across 2–3 GW of solar assets in India and Southeast Asia, and launching commercial pilots in Japan and the Middle East. We’re also strengthening partnerships with EPCs and IPPs who are looking for more reliable, cost-effective O&M solutions.
In the long term, we aim to become a global leader in autonomous O&M and circular energy infrastructure. Our goal is to help reduce 1 million tons of CO₂ annually by 2030, onboard 12.5 GW of solar plants, and achieve $30M in recurring revenue by offering an integrated stack across cleaning, predictive O&M, battery management, and recycling.
To get there, we’re investing in R&D, expanding our team, and building collaborations across continents with a strong focus on execution, not just vision.