The India Energy Stack (IES) is a proposed Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) initiative led by the Ministry of Power to modernise and unify India’s power sector. Built on the learnings from successful DPIs like Aadhaar and UPI, IES aims to address the sector’s current fragmentation, lack of interoperability, and data asymmetry by providing a standardised, modular, and open digital backbone. This system would enable seamless integration across stakeholders such as DISCOMs, SLDCs, consumers, and startups, facilitating verifiable energy transactions, dynamic pricing, improved grid management, and innovative services like energy fintech and virtual power plants.
At its core, IES features a three-layered architecture: infrastructure, services, and applications, with the Utility Intelligence Platform (UIP) acting as its primary application layer. UIP enables real-time analytics, federated data exchange, and plug-and-play capabilities that can scale across regions. The Ministry of Power plans to pilot this framework over 12 months through real-world demonstrations, eventually leading to a nationwide rollout.
The concept brief can be accessed here