04 March 2022 | Roundtable Corridor | Roundtable 5 – Adoption of District Cooling Methods in India

The 8th edition of ISGF’s flagship annual event, the India Smart Utility Week (ISUW) 2022, an International Conference and Exhibition on Smart Energy and Smart Mobility held from 02 – 04 March 2022 on a 3D Digital Platform. ISUW 2022 has witnessed participation of Visionary Leaders, Utility CEOs, Regulators and Subject Matter Experts from 61 Countries. From the overwhelming feedback we received, ISUW 2022 was an astounding success attended by 2744 Conference Delegates including 740 Utility Officials from India and Overseas and 396 Eminent Speakers shared their ideas.

ISUW 2022 provided an effective platform for virtual interactions during sessions on varied themes such as Digitalization of Utilities and Digitalization Roadmaps; Regulations for the Evolving Green Grid of the 21st Century; Cyber Security for the Digitalized Grids; Power System Flexibility; Electric Vehicles and the Electric Grid and Grid Integrated Vehicles (GIV); Green Hydrogen Mission; Disruptive Technologies and Innovations for Utilities. Special plenary sessions were planned on “Evolving Architecture of the 21st Century Grid with Two-Way Power Flows” and “Role of Media in Promotion of Green Energy and Energy Transition to Net Zero”. ISUW 2022 also had 12 Focused Workshops and Roundtables on topics such as Empowering Women in Power and Water Sector (In Partnership with WePower); Scaling up Rooftop Solar (In Partnership with Schneider Electric); Smart Communication Solutions for Smart Utilities and Smart Cities; Live Line Maintenance in Utilities; Interconnection of Regional Grids in Asia (In Partnership with European Union, IRADe and USAID); Smart Metering – Rollout Challenges, System Integration Architecture, Smart Meter Operations Centre (SMOC); Electric Cooking; Urban Air Mobility Systems (In Partnership with Boeing); Adoption of District Cooling Systems in India (In Partnership with BEE and APUEA). Seminars were conducted on Smart City Gas Distribution and Smart Water Distribution and there were 25 technical paper presentations. Exclusive Bi-lateral Smart Grid workshops with EU, USA and Germany were conducted at ISUW 2022. ISUW 2022 witnessed Inspirational Talks by celebrity speakers such as Anita Sengupta, Professor of Astronautics; Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hydroplane Ltd on the “Future of Electric Planes and Power Systems” hosted by Shoma Chaudhury, Senior Journalist; Talk by Michael Potter, Founder, Geeks Without Frontiers and Senior Fellow, International Institute of Space Commerce on Accelerating Humanity as a Multiplanetary Species; and Talk by Samer El Sayary, Architect and Researcher on Outer Space Architecture on Project Lunar Oasis – Architecture and Energy Systems for Space Colonization. Mornings at ISUW started with Virtual Yoga sessions and the event ended with Live Performances by a well renowned Band for all the attendees. The Valedictory Session was conducted in hybrid format with 6th edition of ISGF Innovation Awards to award the trophies to the 39 winners under 12 categories out of 129 Nominations received. These awards are given to recognize and promote some of the outstanding innovations by utilities, technology providers and start-ups.

We are happy to announce that ISUW 2023 will be held in New Delhi from 01-04 March 2023 in New Delhi. For Partnership, Exhibition and Participation queries, please write to us at isuw@isuw.in. For more details, kindly visit www.isuw.in.