Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi is felicitated by Deputy CM Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo during the Global Energy Leaders Summit in Puri on December 6, 2025. | Photo credit: ANI
Energy leaders and policymakers have called for a diversified portfolio of future-ready energy system technologies, including advanced transmission networks, flexible generation sources and modern distribution systems, to ensure reliability, resilience and security of supply as India steadily moves towards its 500 GW non-fossil capacity target.
At the conclusion of the Global Energy Leaders Summit here in the coastal city of Puri on Sunday (December 7, 2025), states were urged to accelerate the joint deployment of energy storage systems, including battery energy storage, pumped hydropower and long-term storage technologies, to enable uninterrupted renewable energy and grid stability.
Organized by the Government of Odisha and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the two-day summit was attended by energy ministers of various states and global energy experts.
The assembly agreed on a single coordination platform for joint planning and implementation of India’s energy plan, supported by a shared knowledge and data centre, ministerial group study missions and regular inter-state dialogues, and issued a statement to this effect.
“We all agree that energy transitions are not won on installed capacity alone. They are won on system adequacy – whether the lights stay on when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. We win on financial viability – whether our discoms (power distribution companies) can borrow, invest and survive without being permanent watchdogs of the state,” said KV Singh Chief, Deputy Minister of Power and Odisha.
“We won them on political courage – on whether we are willing to reform tariffs, retire coal assets responsibly and tell our voters the hard truths about the cost of clean energy,” Singh Deo added.
Experts agreed to accelerate energy efficiency and savings in the residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural and municipal sectors to achieve national energy reduction targets and strengthen India’s 2030 climate commitments.
Clean energy research is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world and nearly two trillion dollars have been invested in it, said BVR Subrahmanyam, CEO, NITI Aayog at the summit.
“The sector will be a huge source of jobs. Not just innovation and investment, but also a lot of people skills,” Subrahmanyam said.
Published – 07 Dec 2025 21:44 IST
