Bhubaneswar, December 8: The two-day Global Energy Leaders’ Summit-2025 concluded in Puri on Sunday with a Draft Puri declaration and signing of four memorandum of understandings (MoUs) to strengthen India’s energy transition.
Over two days, the Summit brought together a distinguished group of leaders, policymakers, industry CEOs, global experts, and researchers for a structured series of closed-door deliberations, thematic panel discussions, technical deep dives, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Deputy CM and Energy Minister KV Singh Deo addressed a press conference on the valedictory event highlighting the outcomes of the summit.
These engagements explored frontier issues such as AI-enabled grid security, carbon markets, advanced financing, clean-tech innovation, and institutional reforms. Collectively, these deliberations have laid the groundwork for a long-term, collaborative platform that will guide India’s energy sector toward a clean, resilient, and innovation-driven future.
As a major outcome of GELS-2025, four strategic MoUs were signed to accelerate research, pilot projects, and clean-energy deployment across Odisha. These agreements reinforce the Summit’s commitment to long-term cooperation, innovation, and institution-building.
A trilateral MoU was signed between Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, GRIDCO, and IIT Bhubaneswar to collaborate on advanced renewable-energy pilot projects and applied research.
In a major initiative toward India’s green hydrogen mission, another MoU was signed between GRIDCO, ReNew, IIT Bhubaneswar, and Avaada. This MoU establishes a Green Hydrogen Centre of Excellence in Odisha to support R&D, demonstrations, and capacity building.
In Renewable-Energy Development Partnership, a tripartite MoU was signed to jointly between the NLC India Renewables Ltd (NIRL), OREDA, GEDCOL to develop renewable-energy projects across Odisha.
As part of the Clean-Energy Deployment Framework, a multi-agency MoU was signed between the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), Odisha Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC), Green Energy Development Corporation of Odisha (GEDCOL), and the Odisha Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA) to accelerate renewable-energy development and integrated planning.
Similarly, based on the various discussions that took place during the two-day session, and with the inputs from the Union Power Ministry and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, a draft of the Puri Declaration was presented, marking a significant step toward building an enduring, cooperative framework for India’s clean energy transition.
The draft Puri Declaration has already been circulated to States for consultation, and consensus-building, ensuring that the final declaration is truly co-authored and collectively owned.
Thanking the visiting dignitaries and expressing optimism for the way forward for the Puri Declaration, Deputy Chief Minister and Energy Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo said, “The process of consensus for the Puri declaration is underway and once done, it will be a collective admission that no State can go alone and our collective promise that none will have to.”
NITI Aayog CEO B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, CEO of Niti Ayog, congratulated the Odisha government for leading a summit of this scale and significance.
