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Bijli Bachao

Head of Product & Platforms

October 2025 – present

Ali Ahmed leads Bijli Bachao’s complete software stack: three production SaaS platforms covering Pakistan’s commercial energy lifecycle. Wattey monitors what a business pulls from the grid, Solar Performance Cloud monitors what its solar generates, and TenantBill handles multi-tenant billing. All three run real factories, solar plants, and shopping malls today — about 3 megawatts and growing.

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production platforms live
3production platforms live
grid energy monitored by Wattey
~1.04 GWhgrid energy monitored by Wattey
solar plants on Solar Performance Cloud
56 sitessolar plants on Solar Performance Cloud
billed through TenantBill at one mall
74 tenantsbilled through TenantBill at one mall

What do the three Bijli Bachao platforms do?

BijliBachao.pk is Pakistan’s solar and energy-automation company, founded by Engr. Reyyan Niaz Khan — UET Lahore, 14+ years in Pakistan’s energy sector, and a pioneer of digital energy auditing in the country. Ali built the full platform stack for his company: one role, three platforms, one energy lifecycle.

The three platforms

Wattey — real-time IoT electricity monitoring

22 smart meters live across 8 client sectors — hotels, textile, paper, dairy, malls — with ~1.04 GWh monitored since January 2026. Three-minute live refresh, Pakistan-specific seasonal time-of-use tariffs, automatic generator detection, and solar import/export tracking.

  • ~500,000+ data points stored — voltage, current, power, energy, per phase
  • 459 kW highest peak load recorded at a single site
  • Multi-tenant dashboard: clients see only their own sites, 4 user roles

Solar Performance Cloud — independent multi-brand solar monitoring

Pakistan’s first independent multi-brand solar performance platform: 56 sites, 70 inverters, and 698 PV strings tracked individually across 5 brands (Huawei, Solis, Growatt, Sungrow, Canadian Solar) — 785 MWh tracked, 3.7 million+ readings, no hardware required.

  • Every string graded daily to the IEC 61724-1 performance-availability split
  • Fault diagnosis that names the issue: dust, shading, dead panel, sensor fault
  • Caught a 50% generation loss on one rooftop and a 33% loss at a mall the owner never knew about

TenantBill by Wattey — photo-verified OCR billing

Live at Mall of Muridke: 74 tenants, 469 meters, and 545 shops across 8 floor categories, every reading photo-verified and extracted by OCR at 85–95% confidence in under 2 seconds. A monthly billing cycle that took 15 days now takes 3 hours.

  • Month-close with frozen snapshots and a full audit trail
  • 95% error reduction, 80% faster invoicing, 70% fewer tenant complaints
  • 3 weeks from signed contract to live operation

How it’s built — the engineering moat

All three platforms share the same discipline, applied to Pakistani energy software from day one:

  • International standards: IEC 61724-1 health scoring and IEC 62446-1 five-state string classification — what utility-scale operators use globally.
  • Multi-tenant SaaS architecture with org-scoped data isolation and role-based access control, the way enterprise buyers expect SaaS to be built.
  • An observability baseline — error tracking, hourly system-health audits, health endpoints — plus enterprise-readiness audits across the suite.
  • Operator-handover discipline: runbooks, audit reports, and change logs, so the software is maintainable by any competent operator, not dependent on its builder.

Who runs on it

These are the platforms’ production clients — real Pakistani businesses: Lahore Continental Hotel, Mall of Mureedkay, Al Haram Paper Mill, FANZ Mills, Amna Dyeing & Finishing, Qadir Engineering, Zahoor Dairy Farm, and commercial sites in Gulberg, Lahore. Ali is the builder and Head of Product; operations stay with the BijliBachao team.

Questions about Bijli Bachao

Are the Bijli Bachao platforms actually live?

Yes — all three run in production today. Wattey has monitored ~1.04 GWh across 22 smart meters since January 2026, Solar Performance Cloud tracks 56 solar sites with 3.7 million+ readings, and TenantBill generates real invoices at Mall of Muridke every month.

What standards are they built to?

Solar Performance Cloud ships IEC 61724-1 performance-availability health scoring and IEC 62446-1 five-state string classification — the international engineering standards used by utility-scale solar operators — and all three platforms share multi-tenant, role-based enterprise SaaS architecture.

What is Ali Ahmed’s role at Bijli Bachao?

Head of Product & Platforms, since October 2025. He designed and built the three platforms and the company website; BijliBachao was founded by Engr. Reyyan Niaz Khan, and daily operations stay with the BijliBachao team.