REC-led India Energy Stack Taskforce reviews final report, charts national rollout

New Delhi: The India Energy Stack (IES) Taskforce has reviewed its final report outlining the strategy, digital architecture, governance framework and roadmap for scaling the initiative as a digital public infrastructure for India's power sector.

The review meeting was held in New Delhi on Thursday, bringing together Taskforce members to assess progress on the design, development and pilot implementation of IES since the Ministry of Power constituted the Taskforce in June 2025.

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REC Limited CMD Jitendra Srivastava delivered the welcome address, while REC Executive Director Prince Dhawan and FSR Global Executive Director Swetha Ravi Kumar presented the final report. IES Taskforce Chairperson Ram Sewak Sharma outlined the way forward, and Ministry of Power Joint Secretary Shashank Misra delivered the concluding remarks.

The India Energy Stack is designed as a common set of open standards and protocols that will enable utilities, system operators, regulators, market participants, technology providers and consumers to exchange data securely through interoperable digital infrastructure, while allowing existing systems to continue operating.

Pilots demonstrate interoperability

The IES framework is built around a three-part mechanism — Register, Discover and Exchange — to enable secure digital interactions across the power sector.

The Register function provides participants with verifiable digital identities and lists them in a shared directory. Discover allows systems to identify and verify one another and establish the information or services to be exchanged and the applicable terms. Exchange enables data transfers through common schemas and taxonomies, with verifiable digital credentials used for authentication wherever required.

The framework has been implemented and tested through pilot projects involving six utilities across five states: Tata Power Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited (APEPDCL), Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited (DGVCL), Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (PVVNL), BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL).

Consumers have also 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 been demonstrated with participating utilities, while a procurement framework has been prepared to support the next phase of implementation.

Open standards to support wider adoption

IES specifications and schemas have been published openly as a public good, allowing utilities, regulators, system operators, market participants and technology providers to adopt the standards and contribute new schemas as sector requirements evolve.

Stakeholders can contribute to the initiative through the REC website at [https://recindia.com/contribute-to-ies](https://recindia.com/contribute-to-ies).

The next phase of implementation will focus on priority use cases, including generation company (GENCO) schedule submission to State Load Despatch Centres (SLDCs), single-window scheduling of bilateral transactions, verifiable Open Access no-objection certificates, 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 Central Electricity Authority (CEA) statutory reporting formats and convert them into machine-readable IES schemas.

Taskforce recommends institutional framework

Looking ahead, the Taskforce has recommended that power-sector stakeholders prepare their systems to become IES-ready, creating a common foundation for interoperable and scalable digital services.

It has also recommended establishing an institutional mechanism to oversee the stewardship of IES specifications and conformance certification, which would support consistent implementation of the framework across the sector.

REC Limited is steering the initiative as the nodal agency under the guidance of the Ministry of Power, with FSR Global serving as the knowledge partner.

The proposed national rollout aims to build a common digital foundation for India's power sector, enabling standardised data exchange and supporting the development of interoperable digital services across the electricity value chain.

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