AmplAI by Valency Energy’s is an agentic grid intelligence platform. It autonomously forecasts distributed energy resources, matches peer to peer energy trades, optimizes market pricing, and secures the grid in real time, backed by a blockchain audit trail for regulatory transparency. It’s the missing digital layer between India’s untapped rooftop solar and a grid still working towards reliable, round the clock power, unlocking O&M savings and new revenue for utilities, fair prices for consumers, and real income for solar owning households, turning surplus power into a shared resource.
What made you want to be engaged in the fight against climate change?
It was not a calling but rather a redirection. In college, my co-founders and I entered the Shell E4 Challenge with a virtual power plant concept, but we didn’t advance. The idea was simply too complex for utilities to adapt to quickly.Instead of shelving our goal to solve the energy access gaps that exist, we went straight to the ground to meet power distribution companies. We realized India’s real bottleneck was structural: utilities lacked real-time visibility to absorb surplus distributed clean energy, while rooftop solar owners lacked viable incentives to share it. Universal grid access had arrived, but reliable 24/7 power had not. These insights took us directly into utility offices across three states. I chose to fix a practical, urgent bottleneck in how India’s grid delivers power.These experiences convinced me that fighting climate change requires more than awareness—it requires practical tools and collaborative platforms that turn knowledge into action.
What motivates/inspires you?
What keeps me going is watching a supposedly immovable system start to shift. That means securing meetings with state utilities that once felt unreachable, having their leadership champion our proposals, and having new states reach out to us first. In 2025, our idea was recognized as one of the global top 45 innovations among 2,000+ applicants from over 73+ countries in the DPI for People and Planet Challenge 2025, this milestone proved that persistence in power distribution pays off and verified feasibility is the way forward. India’s energy transition is often framed as a technology challenge, but in reality, it’s a coordination problem among people, incentives, and institutions. Closing that gap is what drives my me.
What advice do you have for the youth that want to be involved with climate action?
Start before you feel ready, and expect to be told no. We were rejected from the first competition we entered because our idea wasn’t feasible, and that rejection was more useful than the competition would have been. It forced us to go talk to the people actually living the problem instead of pitching around it. Go straight to the institutions and gatekeepers in your sector, even as students. Utilities, regulators, and government bodies are often more open to youth led ideas than you’d expect, especially once you show up with something real instead of just a slide deck. Build with the people you’re serving, not just for them. And don’t mistake slow progress for no progress. Some of the most important groundwork or an approval takes time to show results, but it’s still moving.
Which type of organisation would be most valuable for you to connect with during the event and why?
Governmental institutions and utilities, particularly electricity regulators and state utilities from other Indian states or other countries navigating similar distributed energy transitions, since our model depends on utility partnership, and cross-country regulatory insight could accelerate our pilot to scale timeline. We’re also keen to connect with private sector climate financiers and grid technology companies who could help us scale installation capacity as we move from pilot to commercial deployment, and with other youth led energy ventures to compare notes on navigating utility relationships across different regulatory environments.
Are there any topics you would especially like to speak about?
The journey of renewable energy accessibility in India and other major emerging economies in the world and how distributive renewable sources (DERs) could be a top priority for power-deficit regions that do have substantial renewable energy potential.