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London-backed lab aims to aid India’s clean energy shift
The newly-launched lab aims to address concerns and challenges in India's power sector.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Sat, 27, Dec 2025
- 02:58 EST
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Inauguration of Energy Insights & Innovation Lab (EIIL) / Instagram/@tatapowercompanyltd
Tata Power, in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the International Growth Centre (IGC), a global research centre based at LSE, has launched the Energy Insights & Innovation Lab (EIIL) on Dec. 26 at its Mumbai-based headquarters.
Tata Power is one of India's largest vertically integrated power companies.
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This collaborative strategic research initiative is built to harness cutting-edge research, data, and experimentation to support India's clean energy transition while improving the quality, reliability, and affordability of electricity services for consumers across the nation.
The inaugural ceremony of EIIL also involved the signing of an MoU between Tata Power, LSE, and IGC to co-develop scalable solutions for the power sector through evidence-based approaches and global best practices.
The Lab aims to address concerns and challenges in India's power sector. ranging from managing peak electricity demand to enabling deeper renewable energy integration in a way that is reliable, affordable, and aligned with India's net-zero goals.
EIIL will leverage consumer behavioural science, data analytics, and energy systems modelling to test practical solutions at scale. It will focus on applied pilots that use smart meter and IoT data to improve demand-side management and grid resilience.
The initiative will explore how advanced analytics and behavioural insights can help transform or smooth peak electricity demand in urban households, reducing stress on local networks while maintaining consumer comfort.
The collaboration aims to expand the Lab into a full-scale innovation hub with enhanced funding, institutional partnerships, and a broader mandate, including support in tariff designing for regulatory approvals, consumer flexibility, distributed renewables, and energy equity.
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