IIT Madras energy consortium hosts industry meet to drive transition to low-carbon future

The ‘Industry Day’ event focused on providing international perspectives and an outlook on the evolving global energy challenges and opportunities for India.

IIT Madras energy consortium hosts industry meet to drive transition to Low-Carbon future

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras  Energy Consortium hosted an Industry Meet today; i.e. June 30, 2022, to boost the National and International efforts toward a low-carbon future. The ‘Industry Day’ event focused on providing international perspectives and an outlook on the evolving global energy challenges and opportunities for India.

The Energy Consortium’s Strategic Action Teams, comprised of IIT Madras faculty and advisors from member industries, presented reports on various projects underway in areas of National Importance such as hydrogen economy, carbon capture and storage, ammonia value chain and energy economics for net-zero, among others. A discussion on policy imperatives and international collaboration from Government Representatives was also held, the press release stated.

Addressing the Inaugural Session of Industry Day, Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, said, “We are moving towards creating a Department for sustainability. We have strong industry collaboration for this already. These initiatives can attain their final objectives only with strong industry collaboration.”

Further, Prof. Kamakoti said, “When we look at energy, we are looking at a holistic picture and where we can save energy. We are looking at building a 2,000-seater hostel and are going to use some of the best, proven energy conservation techniques. The Institute will make it available for start-ups that want to work on ‘Building Automation.’ We want to use our Open Air Theatre for Drone Testing. We want to put everything in our campus to multiple uses.”

Prof. Kamakoti added, “Name anything in energy, IIT Madras has a group working on it and these groups are interdisciplinary. IIT Madras is also an ‘Institute of Eminence’ under which we are establishing Centres of Excellence (CoE). Nearly 20 per cent of CoEs in the Second Phase will be dedicated to energy.”

The IIT Madras Energy Consortium was established in December 2021 to leverage the institute’s expertise to accelerate the de-carbonization of Indian industry’s energy systems. It aims to be a critical contributor to India’s Net Zero journey by providing valuable R&D assistance to Indian industries in low carbon energy transition pathways.

The Consortium is an umbrella effort to aggregate individual research efforts across IITM and multiple industry partners together to address grand challenge areas that are critical to energy security of the country and accelerate the technology and innovation efforts.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Dean (Global Engagement), said, “IIT Madras aspires to be in the forefront of the global carbon net zero initiatives and the activities of the energy consortium are a step in that direction.”

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