New Delhi, October 29, 2026: The India Energy Stack (IES) Taskforce met in New Delhi on Thursday to review its Final Report, which outlines the strategy, architecture, governance framework and pathway for scaling IES as a digital public infrastructure for India’s power sector.
The report consolidates the design, development and pilot implementation work undertaken since the Ministry of Power constituted the Taskforce in June 2025.
Jitendra Srivastava, CMD, REC Limited, delivered the welcome address. Prince Dhawan, Executive Director, REC Limited, and Swetha Ravi Kumar, Executive Director, FSR Global, presented the Final Report, followed by a roundtable discussion among Taskforce members. Dr. Ram Sewak Sharma, Chairperson of the IES Taskforce, outlined the way forward, while Shashank Misra, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, concluded the meeting.
The India Energy Stack is a common set of open standards and protocols designed to enable utilities, system operators, regulators, market participants, innovators and consumers to exchange data securely and interact through common digital infrastructure, while allowing existing systems to continue operating.
At its core, IES follows a “Register, Discover and Exchange” framework. The Register function provides participants with verifiable digital identities and lists them in a shared directory. Discover enables systems to find and verify each other and determine the information or services to be exchanged and the applicable terms, without requiring separate bilateral arrangements. Exchange enables data to move through common schemas and taxonomies and, where required, supports authentication through verifiable digital credentials.
IES has been implemented and tested through pilots across six utilities in five states: Tata Power Mumbai, APEPDCL, DGVCL, PVVNL, BRPL and TPDDL. Consumers have begun accessing verifiable digital energy credentials, including the Consumer Energy Passport and Consumer Meter Digest, through DigiLocker in partnership with the National e-Governance Division (NeGD). Peer-to-peer energy transactions have also been demonstrated with participating utilities, and a procurement framework has been prepared to support the next phase of rollout.
The IES specifications and schemas have been published openly as a public good, allowing utilities, system operators, regulators, market participants, technology providers and other stakeholders to adopt them and contribute new schemas as sector requirements evolve. Stakeholders can contribute through https://recindia.com/contribute-to-ies.
The next set of priority use cases includes GENCO schedule submission to State Load Despatch Centres (SLDCs), single-window scheduling of bilateral transactions, verifiable Open Access No Objection Certificates (NOCs), standardised Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) filings by distribution companies (DISCOMs) to State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs), data exchange across systems within a DISCOM, and verification of generator bills by DISCOMs.
Work is also underway to standardise statutory reporting formats prescribed by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and convert them into machine-readable IES schemas, further advancing the adoption of common data standards across the power sector.
Looking ahead, the Taskforce has recommended that power-sector stakeholders become IES-ready to establish a common foundation for interoperable and scalable digital services. It has also recommended setting up an institutional mechanism to oversee IES specifications and conformance certification.
The initiative is being steered by REC Limited as the Nodal Agency under the guidance of the Ministry of Power, with FSR Global serving as the Knowledge Partner.
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