The research center aims to provide a unique opportunity to research scholars, graduate and undergraduate students to work on projects developed in partnership with industry and focused on solving real-world problems in the domain of energy management. Industry promoted projects will help the students in gaining a better understanding and perspective of the real-world requirements and help in translating their theoretical knowledge to tangible outputs. The opportunity to interact with the experts from industry will help in preparing a next generation of technocrats well suited for academia and industry. Our main objective is to cultivate a healthy sharing of knowledge between industry and academia through active engagement in projects, industry specific workshops, short-term courses, conferences and seminars. The research center aims to reach operational self-sustainability through the funds garnered through industrial projects and by conducting short-term courses and industry specific workshops.

The research center will have the capacity to:

• Provide a platform for active engagement of academia with the industry to identify the technology gaps hindering the actual implementation of smart grid.
• Establish and maintain long-term, sustainable, mutually-transformative partnership across campus and between campus and community.
• Create a unified framework for critical assessment of contemporary technology and trends related to various aspects of smart-grid components, operation and controls, viz. generation, transmission-distribution, utilization and energy storage sub-systems with local controls, sensing & communication, load and energy management systems and system optimization.
• Design, model and build scaled-down test bed which synergistically combines generation, control devices with information technology and wireless communication to perform experimental tests and validation of the designed smart grid components and optimization algorithms.
• Provide industry relevant exposure and research opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students.