Srikanth Srinivasan’s Post

Imagine - It’s one of the most powerful words out there. When ONS announced the theme of their 2024 energy industry event as ‘Imagine’, I felt that the organizers could not picked a more apt word. This word has started to mean more to me, ever since I started working in the Energy Transition space. As we explore solutions for Energy Transition, we are often confronted with the need to think beyond point solutions and visualize entire value chains that replace carbon-intensive value-chains built over centuries. As an example, decarbonizing transportation is not just about building an EV car but also to build a charging infrastructure connected to a modern grid powered by renewable sources. It is also about understanding that transportation is much more than moving people and goods from point A to point B. Understanding the context for transportation is crucial to drive adoption. EV adoption for a school bus fleet will have to be visualized very differently from that for a rental car fleet or a retail consumer. The exciting part about my role at Infosys is that we’re looking to go beyond point solutions for energy transition. We’re focused on building an entire ecosystem of change with partners, frameworks and offerings. We take pride in our ability to be a Digital Energy Orchestrator, and this gives us the canvas to partner with energy sector leaders as well as innovative technology providers and forward-thinking academic institutions. Together, with all of them, we’ve imagined breakthrough solutions that are contributing to decarbonization for enterprises. With one of our partners VFlow, we have made major inroads into a significant challenge / opportunity: Incorporating long-duration energy storage and optimizing a micro-grid with varied renewable sources, and early success for us came from implementing it at one of the largest ports in the Asia Pacific. This experience has given us crucial insights and renewed enthusiasm to apply this solution at a larger scale. Through our collaboration with IIT Madras Energy Consortium, we’re pushing the boundaries of how digital technology can help harness the power of hydrogen for green energy. There’s a lot more to imagine yet. And the prospect of meeting others who can fuel our future is what I’m looking forward to the most for the week ahead in Stavanger, Norway. Here, we will showcase the next horizon of what we can imagine with AI in energy transition. As Net Zero Markets sponsor for ONS 2024, we have many powerful panel discussions lined up, bringing together fellow optimists from across our ecosystem. We’ll be at booth #4030 at the ONS Expo over four days from August 26 to 29, stationing ourselves here for all things Energy Transition #EnergyTransitionNow. #VFlow #Energytransition #EnergyConsortium #Infosysenergy Ashiss Dash Joseph Alenchery Anchal Bhatia Deepak Malhotra Kumar Paramasivam Dr. Arunkumar Ranganathan Surya Chavali Praveen Gonabal