Hosts dialogue to advance energy transition for India’s net-zero journey

Hitachi Energy has launched a new initiative, ‘Technology Colloquium—Technologies for energy transition and sustainable grid’, for engineering students across India. Through this new platform, Hitachi Energy aims to reach out to engineering colleges during the year to talk about one of the most important and urgent issues of our time: energy transition and net-zero targets. Since 1949, Hitachi Energy’s focus in India has remained on advancing a sustainable energy future for all that goes well beyond products and technologies.

The need to reach the net-zero goal is bigger than one Company, one team, and one individual; partnerships and collaboration are prerequisites to reach the end objective. To forge the same, we need to cultivate a future talent pool to drive the energy transition for a sustainable and efficient future. It requires a strategic approach encompassing talent identification, development, and retention through investing in skill development, fostering industry-academia partnerships, and equipping them with the latest technical and digital acumen necessary to drive innovation and solutions in the segment.

Forums like Tech Colloquium will go a long way in creating a robust workforce by helping them (students) acquire new expertise to address the growing energy requirements of today and the future. It provides a platform for meaningful conversations and the exchange of ideas on energy transition among young minds, subject matter experts, and Hitachi Energy leaders.

The Tech Colloquium at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT, Delhi) was addressed, by N Venu, MD & CEO, India & South Asia, Hitachi Energy, Dr. Gerhard Salge, Global CTO Hitachi Energy and other esteem industry & academic experts.

At the session, the future of energy networks, technologies that will shape our energy future, the need for competencies and talents in education, research, and industries for energy transition were discussed with students of IIT, Delhi.