Kiran Bhatraju grew up in a town dominated by the coal industry as the son of a doctor who had immigrated to the United States from India.
He watched his father treat front-line coal workers suffering from black lung disease and other illnesses related to their work. That experience shaped his view of how necessary clean energy is to the health of a community.
Bhatraju now serves CEO of Arcadia Power Inc., a D.C. clean tech company that works with energy entrepreneurs and consumers to fight climate change through data solutions that he founded in 2014. Arcadia doesn’t disclose revenue, Bhatraju says, but the 230-person company’s revenue grew by 500% between 2019 and 2021.
Through his company, Bhatraju launched technology to allow renters and homeowners to repurpose part of their power bills to help fund local solar farms and use locally generated clean energy, while also saving on their monthly bills. He wanted to work around a common barrier for the average resident interested…
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