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Industry Investor Insights on Energy Efficiency & Digital/AI | CLIMAFIX Summit 2025

This session from the CLIMAFIX Summit 2025 explores how energy efficiency, digital technologies, and AI are reshaping India’s energy landscape. The panel brings together industry leaders from renewable energy, EPC, digital innovation, academia, and the startup ecosystem to discuss challenges, opportunities, and real-world use cases across renewable power, heavy industries, infrastructure, and climate-tech entrepreneurship.

The conversation covers forecasting for renewables, digital twins, energy management systems, air-conditioning optimization, construction efficiency, industrial IoT, data models, lab-to-market acceleration, and the role of early adopters and investors in scaling climate-tech solutions.

Speakers:

• Sanjay Kumar – Orbi2aNext
• Anandnambi G – Technip Energies
• Arun Nair – Startup Singam
• Arul Shanmugasundaram – Swelect Energy
• Anson Sando – IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP)

Moderator: Tina Philip, Director – Accenture

⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 – Opening & brief introduction
00:21 – Moderator introduces panelists & context
01:21 – Moderator Tina Philip introduces herself (Accenture)
02:24 – Renewable energy vs energy efficiency discussion begins
03:21 – Framing the panel: India’s energy efficiency landscape
04:12 – Panelists begin introductions
05:06 – Sanjay Kumar (Orbi2aNext) – Company intro & digital twin needs
07:22 – Anson Sando (IITMRP) – 24/7 renewable campus & energy management
09:02 – Anandnambi G (Technip Energies) – Digital innovation & AI in industry
10:18 – Arul Shanmugasundaram (Swelect Energy) – Renewable integration & forecasting challenges
11:42 – Arun Nair (Startup Singam) – Startup ecosystem perspective
12:30 – Question: Role of AI in renewable value chain
13:02 – Renewable forecasting, storage decisions & AI/ML limitations
15:15 – Wind unpredictability & noise-handling in models
17:28 – Battery dispatch decisions for 24/7 renewable supply
18:59 – Monetising smart energy operations
20:12 – Energy efficiency in construction & manufacturing
22:11 – Reducing steel tonnage with digital optimisation
24:18 – Energy intensity of steel & manufacturing
26:16 – Digital twins for construction (metro example)
28:23 – Industrial adoption challenges & digital tools
29:23 – Implementing AI & digital in process industries
31:08 – Modelling physical systems for reliable AI
33:12 – Importance of structured data & engineering models
34:13 – Accelerating lab-to-market from academia
35:31 – Heat gain analysis & building efficiency (IITMRP example)
37:08 – AC optimisation & zone-based cooling
38:43 – Combining startups, industry partners & research
39:46 – Moderator’s wrap-up transition
40:11 – Climate-tech startup adoption & visibility (Startup Singam)
42:21 – Importance of early adopters in climate tech
43:02 – Final closing remarks from moderator
43:26 – End of session