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Journey of the Smart Grid Observatory

SGO Phase 2

India Energy Stack

SGO enters Phase 2, shifting focus from discussion to design and implementation through the India Energy Stack, guided by the IES Task Force.

IES Concept Brief →

WHY IES EXISTS

Why IES exists

Smart metersRooftop solarEV chargingDemand-side tools

India's utilities have added smart meters, rooftop solar, EV charging and demand-side tools at pace. Each produces useful data, and each sits in a system that cannot read its neighbours. A single DISCOM often runs four separate systems, one each for metering, billing, net metering and demand response, and connects them one bespoke integration at a time. Add a new vendor and the DISCOM starts again. The same integration is then repeated, utility by utility, across the country, and the same applies to most stakeholders.

AadhaarOne identity, everywhere

UPIOne payment rail, every bank

India has solved this problem before through other Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs). IES applies the same idea to energy: not a new central platform, and not a database that stores or holds anyone's data. It is a shared set of specifications that lets the systems already built talk to each other, while data stays exactly where it is generated. Three steps make this work: register once, discover who else is on the digital rails, and exchange data directly, system to system.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Official Partner

Nodal Agency

Knowledge Partner

IES Task Force

Nandan Nilekani

Chief Mentor

Non-executive chairman of Infosys

Dr. Ram Sewak Sharma

Chairperson

Former DG of UIDAI, Former CEO, National Health Authority (NHA), Former Chairman, TRAI

Pradeep Kumar Pujari

Vice Chair

Distinguished Fellow, FSR Global, Former Chairman CERC, Former Secretary Power

Pramod Varma

Chief Architect

Chief Architect of FIDE, Aadhaar, Co founder FIDE

Ghanshyam Prasad

Member

Chairperson, CEA

Alok Kumar

Member

DG, AIDA

Jitendra Srivastava

Member

CMD, REC

Lokesh Chandra

Member

CMD, MSEDCL

Prudhvi Tej Immadi

Member

MD, APEPDCL

Arti Dogra

Member

MD, JVVNL

Raveesh Gupta

Member

MD, PVVNL

Jenu Devan

Member

MD, GUVNL

Yogesh Choudhary

Member

MD, DGVCL

Abhishek Ranjan

Member

CEO, BRPL

Dwarka Sreenath

Member

Tata Power, Mumbai

Kandarp Patel

Member

Adani Power, Mumbai

S K Soonee

Member

Founder, Former CMD, Grid India

Vikram Gandotra

Member

President Elect, IEEMA

Prof. Zakir Hussain

Member

IIT Bombay

Debjani Ghosh

Member

NITI Aayog

Sanjay Koul

Member

Representative from MeitY

Abhishek Kumar Singh

Member

Representative from UIDAI

Vikram Dhaka

Member

Representative from MNRE

Shashank Misra

Convenor

Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power

Swetha Ravi Kumar

Program Director

Executive Director, FSR Global

Sujith Nair

Member

CEO, FIDE

Dr. Rahul Tongia

Member

Senior Fellow, CSEP

Reji Pillai

Member

President, ISGF

Saurav Kumar Shah

Member

ED, PFC

Prince Dhawan

Program Director

Executive Director,REC

IES Expert Working Group

Distribution

14 members

Prince Dhawan

Executive Director, REC

Atul Bali

Director (NPMU), NSGM

Saurav Kumar Shah

Executive Director, PFC

Avinash Haware

MSEDCL

Abhishek Ranjan

CEO, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL)

Madhukar Rane

BEST

Santadyuti Samanta

Chief Digital & IT, Tata Power T&D

Vaibhav Tandon

Head Commercial Management, Power Procurement & Smart Metering at Adani Electricity

Dr. Suryanarayan Doolla

Professor, IIT Bombay

Mr. Chandrakant N Pendor

Additional General Manager (IT), GUVNL

Nominated Representative

APEPDCL

Deepti Mathur

JVVNL

Mr. Nitesh Bidarkar

GUVNL

Jitendra Kumar Nalwaya

PUVVNL

System Operations

11 members

Samir Saxena

CMD, Grid India

Naveen Srivastava

Power Grid

S. R. Narasimhan

Former CMD, Grid India

P K Agarwal

Former Board Director and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer), Grid India

Ashok Pal

COO, CTU

Nominated Representative

RLDC Representation

Nominated Representative

Delhi SLDC

Nominated Representative

Gujarat SLDC

Shashank Jewalikar

Maharashtra SLDC

Saif Rehman

FOLD

G P Upadhyaya

DG, Electrical Power Transmission Association

Generation

4 members

Sanjeev Kumar Singh

NTPC

Saurabh Ray

Chief of Digital & IT, Tata Power - Generation

Abhishek Tyagi

Adani Electricity

I.C.P. Keshari

DG, Association of Power Producers

Policy and Regulation

7 members

S K Chatterjee

CERC/FOR Representation

Vivek Goel

Chief Engineer, CEA

Nominated Representative

BEE Representation

B A Sawale

DG CPRI (BIS)

Prof. Anoop Singh

IIT Kanpur

S.R. Pandey

GERC

Dr. Rajendra G. Ambekar

MERC

Market

4 members

Rohit Bajaj

MD, IEX

Dr. Rajib Kumar Mishra

Professor MDI Gurgaon, Former MD PTC

Kapil Dev

MD, New Age Markets

Sanjeev Kumar

MD, GNA Energy

Tech & Cybersecurity

9 members

Kunjbihari Daga

CA Team

Senior Principal Architect, Microsave Consulting

Dr. Shivani Sharma

CA Team

Principal Technical Consultant, Hitachi Energy

Sridhar Pongupati

CA Team

CEO, Blaze Automation

Nominated Representative

Representative from Nasscom

Gautam Kumar

CTO, Intellismart

Asmita Goyal

Secure Meters

Satish Kumar

AEEE

Vish Ganti

FIDE

Indus

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