The Deep Electrification Forum has been conceptualised by Vasudha Foundation with support from SED Fund to engage in consensus building and policy discourse around deep electrification as a sustainable energy transition pathway to achieve India’s net-zero targets.

The Forum will delve into the impact and feasibility aspects of sectoral deep electrification programs. It will be hands-on and participatory in nature, broadly brainstorming based on themes cross-cutting across technology, finance, and policy.

The first phase of the forum convenings will focus on transport and cooking sectors, which were chosen based on criteria such as fossil fuel usage, the rate of increase in fossil fuel usage, Gross Value Added (GVA), and technology availability. These criteria were used to establish the final ranking of sectors, highlighting the urgency and potential for implementing deep electrification strategies. Cooking is being focussed due to its societal impacts including public health and to reduce exposure to import dependency on LPG and rising costs for the end users. The subsequent phases of the Deep Electrification Forum will focus on reducing emissions in the industrial sector.

Vasudha Foundation will function as the Secretariat to facilitate the implementation of the deep electrification strategy for major energy demand sectors in India.