Driving economic growth, energy security, and net-zero futures for India and the Global South.
Ashoka Centre for a People-centric Energy Transition (ACPET)
Ashoka Centre for a People-centric Energy Transition (ACPET) has been established to support energy transition towards a net-zero economy and to address a critical knowledge gap in this pathway for India and the Global South.
Our Vision
To attain fair and equitable net-zero economies in the Global South
Our Mission
ACPET is committed to advancing India’s journey toward Viksit Bharat 2047 and Net Zero 2070 by ensuring that the energy transition is affordable, inclusive, sustainable, and people-centric.
OUR APPROACH
Co-designing workable solutions that are community-centric, scalable, and adaptable with government, industry, and local communities
Field testing, empirical documentation, and rigorous impact evaluation of interventions
Producing academically rigorous, evidence-informed, and policy-relevant research insights
Knowledge-sharing, dissemination, and capacity-building to shape policy and practice
Energy Futures Lab
The Energy Futures Lab (EFL) is ACPET’s advanced data modelling, machine learning, and analytics hub. EFL focuses on data mining, cleaning and analytics, AI-ML models, energy chatbots, algorithm development, dashboards, and interactive climate and meteorology tools. The EFL supports all ACPET's thematic areas to produce futuristic policy insights. Its foresight-driven incubation platform, ACPET REBOOST (Research on Energy Futures for Building Ongoing Operational Systems and Techniques), also hosts multiple consortium partners from the energy sector.
Highlights from ACPET
Podcast
Episode 04
ACPET’s ‘Energy Transition Dialogues’ is an integrated initiative ...
Report
June 2025
Our house fills with smoke. We feel dizzy. We tell our children to go out,” recalls...
Media
01 December 2025
Vaibhav Chowdhary and Gaurav Bhatiani
Work with us in advancing a fair, equitable, and people-centric energy transition for a sustainable future
Our Founding Patrons
The centre was launched in March 2023 with the support of our founding patrons
Partners
