Who We Are
About Us
Buffalo Renewables, Inc. is a preeminent Distributed Generation (DG) installation company in NY. We specialize in providing turnkey distributed wind and solar PV systems ranging in size from 1 kW to 5 MW, and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to our clients. Our vertically integrated team not only helps customers identify an ideal clean energy system for their immediate and future needs, but also manages the design, permitting and grant writing for projects. We work with our residential, agricultural, and commercial customers to generate clean energy and manage their usage efficiently to minimize their carbon footprint.
Our Team
Padma Kasthurirangan
Padma Kasthurirangan is the Chief Engineer and President of Buffalo Renewables. She is a UB grad with a MS degree in Electrical Engineering, a NYSERDA eligible small wind installer and a NABCEP certified PV Installation Professional, She is a recognized National expert in Distributed Generation (DG) permitting, installation and interconnection and is the most successful USDA REAP grant writer for distributed wind in the country. She serves on the board of directors of the Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Buffalo Section and is an IEEE Senior Member. When not climbing paperwork mountains or battling utilities, she enjoys climbing towers, kickboxing, biking, traveling, reading and jumping out of planes.
Vasu Primlani
Vasu Primlani is the Business Development Manager at Buffalo Renewables. Vasu has over two decades of experience in developing systems for sustainability with a focus on underserved communities. She has developed comprehensive environmental programs in San Francisco Bay Area, Miami-Dade, Contra Costa, Vancouver GVRD, and India. She is the recipient of over a dozen environmental innovation and leadership awards, including the highest US EPA environmental achievement award, the highest of most prestigious state of California's environmental and economic leadership award, PG&E energy efficiency award, the highest award given by the President of India to a woman, the Nari Shakti award, and she is an Ashoka fellow. Vasu is also a professor teaching sustainability in business school, and a corporate consultant.
Thomas Fleckenstein
Armed with about 800 years of experience in everything from farming to rail car engineering, Thom initiated this fearless team in the renewable energy industry. Recently retired, he continues to be available to impart his wisdom and quiet(not really that quiet) judgement on our ventures when not travelling, biking and playing with his grandchildren!!
Team Buffalo
Our team is composed of not just us, but also our dear funding agencies, trusted local partners, and most of all, our extended family of happy customers!! Our award winning team will lead you thru the labyrinthine permitting and design process to reach your clean energy goals!! When not wielding the wrench, we are also a bunch of fun WNY lovers!!
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