Power Ministry Reviews India Energy Stack’s Foundational Framework

25 Nov 2025 CW Team

Led by REC Limited as the Nodal Agency and supported by FSR Global as Knowledge Partner, the IES aims to create a secure, interoperable digital backbone connecting stakeholders across the energy value chain. The platform is designed to enable seamless data exchange, improve grid operations, enhance market transparency, and strengthen consumer-centric energy services.

The meeting brought together senior experts from technology, utilities and regulatory institutions for an extensive roundtable discussion. Taskforce Chairman Dr Ram Sewak Sharma, former DG of UIDAI and former CEO of the National Health Authority, guided the deliberations alongside Chief Architect Pramod Verma, co-founder of FIDE and former Chief Architect of Aadhaar, and Vice Chair Pradeep Kumar Pujari, former Chairman of CERC.

Participants included CEA Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad, AIDA DG Alok Kumar, REC CMD Jitendra Srivastava, former Grid India CMD S.K. Soonee, IEEMA President-Elect Vikram Gandotra, FSR Global ED Swetha Ravi Kumar, FIDE CEO Sujith Nair, REC ED Prince Dhawan, PVVNL MD Raveesh Gupta, Distinguished Fellow at NITI Aayog Debjani Ghosh, and Joint Secretary (Distribution) Shashank Mishra.

REC CMD Jitendra Srivastava said the meeting marked an important milestone toward building India’s next-generation energy digital infrastructure. He noted that the inputs from experts will help refine the documents ahead of the pilot phase.

The IES, envisioned as a transformative public digital infrastructure, will introduce open protocols, federated registries and real-time data exchange to break silos across generation, transmission, distribution and consumers. The initiative is expected to improve DISCOM efficiency, enable renewable energy integration, strengthen market operations and promote innovation through open APIs.

Members emphasised that the IES could become as transformative for energy as Aadhaar has been for identity and UPI for digital payments. Monthly Taskforce meetings will now be conducted to ensure timely progress. The project is targeted for completion by July 2026.

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The Ministry of Power convened a high-level meeting of the India Energy Stack (IES) Taskforce to accelerate the development of the country’s first unified digital public infrastructure for the power sector. The review session centred on two key foundational documents — the draft IES Strategy Document (version 0.1) and the IES Architecture Document (version 0.1) — which outline the structural, technical and policy blueprint for the initiative.Led by REC Limited as the Nodal Agency and supported by FSR Global as Knowledge Partner, the IES aims to create a secure, interoperable digital backbone connecting stakeholders across the energy value chain. The platform is designed to enable seamless data exchange, improve grid operations, enhance market transparency, and strengthen consumer-centric energy services.The meeting brought together senior experts from technology, utilities and regulatory institutions for an extensive roundtable discussion. Taskforce Chairman Dr Ram Sewak Sharma, former DG of UIDAI and former CEO of the National Health Authority, guided the deliberations alongside Chief Architect Pramod Verma, co-founder of FIDE and former Chief Architect of Aadhaar, and Vice Chair Pradeep Kumar Pujari, former Chairman of CERC.Participants included CEA Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad, AIDA DG Alok Kumar, REC CMD Jitendra Srivastava, former Grid India CMD S.K. Soonee, IEEMA President-Elect Vikram Gandotra, FSR Global ED Swetha Ravi Kumar, FIDE CEO Sujith Nair, REC ED Prince Dhawan, PVVNL MD Raveesh Gupta, Distinguished Fellow at NITI Aayog Debjani Ghosh, and Joint Secretary (Distribution) Shashank Mishra.REC CMD Jitendra Srivastava said the meeting marked an important milestone toward building India’s next-generation energy digital infrastructure. He noted that the inputs from experts will help refine the documents ahead of the pilot phase.The IES, envisioned as a transformative public digital infrastructure, will introduce open protocols, federated registries and real-time data exchange to break silos across generation, transmission, distribution and consumers. The initiative is expected to improve DISCOM efficiency, enable renewable energy integration, strengthen market operations and promote innovation through open APIs.Members emphasised that the IES could become as transformative for energy as Aadhaar has been for identity and UPI for digital payments. Monthly Taskforce meetings will now be conducted to ensure timely progress. The project is targeted for completion by July 2026.

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