Indorama Ventures Center for Clean Energy is Plaksha’s first interdisciplinary research hub designed to lead clean energy transition through research. IVCCE aims to drive India’s clean energy transition, anchored in the principle of energy efficiency as the first fuel. With a focus on Urban Heat Island mitigation, decarbonisation of residential cooling, smart buildings and grid modernisation, the Center develops scalable solutions at the intersection of energy and digitalization. The pathways to impact are policy, capacity building, and startups which ensure that innovation translates into real-world benefits across diverse geographies and socio-economic groups.
The Center for Sustainable and Precision Agriculture develops affordable precision agriculture technologies to empower Indian agriculture with data driven farming. CSPA envisions increasing farm yields while ensuring agricultural sustainability. Combining satellite and drone based geospatial technology solutions with cutting edge AI, the center serves to enhance food security and reduce operational costs for farmers. This will be achieved by generating timely advisories in local language and context, building robotic systems for monitoring and weeding services, developing environmentally friendly bio-pesticides and bio-sensors and commodity price prediction enabling farmers to identify the right time to harvest for maximum economic benefit. CSPA is built to transform the Indian agriculture ecosystem, enhancing farm yields, and striving to impact countless farmers.
The Center for Water Security at Plaksha is a transdisciplinary research center dedicated to ensuring sustainable access to clean water in urban context. The focus is on tackling critical challenges such as untreated sewage discharge and pollution of urban streams. CWS combines fundamental and applied research to develop solutions in advanced water quality monitoring and resource-efficient wastewater treatment. By working with various stakeholders, the center strives to deliver comprehensive solutions that are both actionable and scalable.
The Center for Equitable and Personalised Healthcare targets advances in next-generation bio-informed technologies to improve medical diagnostics and therapeutics for non-communicable disease care. Focused on LMICs and Indian medical scenario, CEPH uses cutting edge science, translational research and product development to enable individualized disease susceptibility and personalized treatment options. From biomarker identification to next generation diagnostic measurements and AI-powered point-of-care tools, the center aims to deliver accessible and personalized healthcare solutions at scale.
Plaksha’s vision is firmly rooted in interdisciplinary research to address grand challenges. In line with this, we are establishing four research centers, dedicated to addressing global challenges in clean energy, water security, equitable health, and sustainable agriculture, supported by state-of-the-art research laboratories.
“At Plaksha, we’ve undertaken the task of identifying and addressing the most pressing challenges facing our society. One of these is the imperative to decarbonize our energy sector. The Indorama Ventures Center for Clean Energy is committed to interdisciplinary research and impactful initiatives towards cleaner energy for all.”
Dr. Vishal Garg Director, Indorama Ventures Center for Clean Energy