Deepa Ananthakrishnan

Chief Operating Officer

Deepa joins Scale with close to two decades of experience working in operations in the renewable space. Before joining Scale, Deepa was Senior Vice President of Operations at Primergy Solar and worked to develop Gemini, a 690 MWac solar + 380 MW battery energy storage project, which is one of the most sophisticated clean energy projects ever developed given its scale and integration complexity. Deepa also spearheaded building the operations team at Primergy with a focus on scalable processes and tools. Prior to Primergy, Deepa spent 14 years at SunPower where she held multiple leadership roles responsible for negotiating and executing more than 20 GW of projects across the globe. At SunPower, Deepa twice led the engineering and design teams for the largest PV projects in the U.S. at the time. Deepa holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Madras and a Master of Science in architecture from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.