Ongoing Projects

The India Energy Security Index (IESI) is a pioneering, data-driven modelling framework designed to map and accelerate India’s path to structural energy sovereignty. Moving far beyond traditional observational dashboards, the IESI utilizes a rigorous mathematical risk-decomposition equation to quantify physical vulnerability gaps. The model establishes the nation's current baseline security score and charts the exact techno-economic pathway required to scale toward a theoretical maximum capability cap.

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To bridge this gap, the framework evaluates a comprehensive deep-tech stack - featuring innovations like advanced battery chemistries, small modular reactors, long-duration energy storage, and edge-computing smart grids. These vectors are systematically categorised across three foundational pillars: Self-Reliance, Clean Diversification, and Efficiency.

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Crucially, the IESI translates theoretical policy into hard infrastructure finance. It maps varying Technology Readiness Levels to sovereign capital deployment phases, identifying precise public funding requirements and private equity crossover thresholds.

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Built as an open, institutional-grade decision tool, this project actively welcomes collaboration. I invite energy economists, climate-tech investors, and policy stakeholders to partner in refining these strategic pathways and shaping the future of sovereign capital allocation.

This project develops an Advanced Technology Roadmap for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) systems, focused on the technological and system-level improvements required to strengthen commercial competitiveness between 2026 and 2040.

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The roadmap considers the complete stationary SOFC system, rather than the stack in isolation, with particular emphasis on distributed generation, industrial and commercial CHP, and data-centre applications.

 

It evaluates key technology domains alongside commercial drivers such as installed cost, efficiency, system availability, useful life, maintenance burden and manufacturability. The work combines structured technology and value hierarchies, evidence-based benchmarking, maturity assessment and quantitative figures of merit to identify the improvements that matter most for future deployment.

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A central objective is to connect technical performance with real commercial requirements - including manufacturing readiness, system integration, reliability and fuel infrastructure. The roadmap currently focuses on systems operating with natural gas, upgraded biomethane and hydrogen.

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The project is being developed as a rigorous, publishable framework and is open to collaboration with SOFC developers (system & stack), component suppliers, researchers, end users and industry partners interested in contributing data, validating assumptions or exploring application-specific roadmap pathways.

Project Cool Flow is an early-stage sustainable cooling initiative focused on improving the efficiency of existing air-conditioning systems in hot-climate markets.

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Rather than replacing installed equipment, the project explores a retrofit approach designed to reduce the thermal stress experienced by outdoor cooling units during periods of high ambient temperature when electricity demand and system inefficiency are often at their highest.

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Focus: Cooling Efficiency | Retrofit Technology | Hot-Climate markets

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