Astonfield

Astonfield was founded in 2005 by Ameet Shah and Sourabh Sen. As an early entrant in the Indian solar market, Astonfield won one of the first solar project contracts in the country under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. This project, a 5 MW solar photovoltaic project at Osiyan, Rajasthan, was commissioned under the Migration Phase of the National Solar Mission, which incorporated projects already under advanced development when the Mission was launched in 2009.

In 2011, Astonfield entered a strategic partnership with the Spanish solar developer Grupo T-Solar to develop photovoltaic plants in India. The 5 MW Osiyan plant used T-Solar thin-film modules, with Schneider Electric as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor, and was financed with debt from the State Bank of India and the Export–Import Bank of India. It was among the first utility-scale solar plants commissioned in the country under the National Solar Mission.