India Energy Stack Taskforce releases version 0.4 Strategy and Architecture Documents
Dated 2026-03-27

New Delhi, 27 March 2026: The Ministry of Power today released Version 0.4 of the India Energy Stack (IES) Architecture and Strategy documents, marking another step in the development of a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for India’s power sector.

The India Energy Stack aims to create a common digital framework that helps different stakeholders — including utilities, system operators, market participants, innovators, and consumers — securely exchange data and interact using shared standards and protocols. This approach is intended to improve coordination, transparency, and efficiency across the energy ecosystem.

The updated Version 0.4 documents reflect ongoing work to design, test, and refine the framework through phased development and consultation. The IES initiative is being advanced through ecosystem collaboration, pilot implementation, and eventual national rollout to support a more reliable, flexible, and future-ready power system.

Importantly, the India Energy Stack is expected to benefit consumers and prosumers by giving them greater control and participation in the energy ecosystem. Through consent-based data sharing and interoperable digital services, consumers can access improved energy services, compare offerings, and participate in programmes such as demand response or EV charging. Prosumers — who both produce and consume electricity — can more easily monetise surplus energy, verify transactions, and engage in energy markets. By enabling trusted measurement, verification, and settlement at scale, the framework can help households, businesses, and community groups participate confidently and benefit economically from their energy choices.

The meeting was attended by Taskforce Chairman, Dr. Ram Sewak Sharma (Former Director General, UIDAI; Former CEO, National Health Authority; Former Chairman, TRAI); Vice Chair, Sh. Pradeep Kumar Pujari (Distinguished Fellow, FSR Global; Former Chairman, CERC; Former Secretary, Power); Sh. Jitendra Srivastava (CMD, REC Limited); Sh. Pankaj Kumar (MD - UPPCL); Sh. Shashank Misra (Convenor, IES Taskforce; Joint Secretary - Ministry of Power, Government of India); Sh. Pranav Tayal (Director, Ministry of Power); Sh. Prince Dhawan (Executive Director - REC Limited); Sh. Pramod Verma (Co-founder, FIDE; Former Chief Architect, Aadhaar); Sh. Abhishek Ranjan (CEO - BRPL); Sh. Vikram Dhaka (Representative, MNRE); Smt. Swetha Ravi Kumar (Executive Director, FSR Global); Sh. Sujith Nair (CEO - FIDE); Sh. Alok Kumar (Director General, AIDA); Sh. Reji Pillai (President - ISGF); Smt. Debjani Ghosh (Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog); Dr. Rahul Tongia (Senior Fellow, CSEP); Sh. Vikram Gandotra (President - IEEMA), among other dignitaries.

During India AI Summit at Bharat Mandapam, on 16 February 2026, a live demo of peer‑to‑peer energy trading was presented to the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.

The initiative is steered by REC Limited as the Nodal Agency, working closely with the Ministry of Power and supported by FSR Global as the Knowledge Partner.

The India Energy Stack (IES) project is scheduled to be completed by July 2026.

ABOUT INDIA ENERGY STACK

The India Energy Stack (IES) is an interoperable digital framework of open standards and protocols that enables secure, lowcost data and service exchange across the power sector, similar to how UPI transformed India’s digital payments ecosystem.

REC Limited is the nodal agency for the India Energy Stack on behalf of the Ministry of Power. FSR Global serves as the knowledge partner for the initiative, with support from the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF), which has played a key role in advancing smart grid innovation and providing technical inputs for scaling digital energy solutions across India. Additionally, Networks for Humanity (NFH) is contributing to the development of a trust‑based digital transaction framework to ensure secure, verifiable, and scalable peer‑to‑peer energy networks.