Expert Advisory Panel for District Cooling consultations

Date: 4 August & 14 October 2025

The project team organized 2 stakeholder consultation meetings virtually to directly support the e-learning training modules on district cooling in India. The team presented the content of Modules 1–6 across two sessions with the Expert Advisory Panel. Feedback from these consultations was systematically collected and incorporated to strengthen and refine the module training content.

A wide range of stakeholders from government agencies, research institutions, industry bodies, and private sector organizations were invited to provide input. These included:

• Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)
• Ozone Cell, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC)
• Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)
• NITI Aayog
• Central Public Works Department (CPWD)
• National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA)
• Gujarat International Finance Tec-City Co. Ltd. (GIFT City)
• SHAKTI Foundation
• Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI)
• Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE)
• Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Manufacturers Association (RAMA)
• India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF)
• BSES Rajdhani
• Tata Power
• Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT)
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
• Plaksha University
• Centre for Advanced Research in Building Science and Energy (CARBSE), CEPT University
• EE-Cool PMU (AEEE, KPMG)
• GIZ
• Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE)
• Tabreed
• State Planning Commission (SPC), Tamil Nadu
• MahaPREIT, Maharashtra
• IIT Madras Research Park
• Integrative Design Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
• Women in DCS Group India
• Adani
• Danfoss India
• Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

The feedback received from these stakeholders was instrumental in enhancing the quality, relevance, and robustness of the Module e-training content.