Coordinated by the Grid Integration Lab, IIT Bombay, Department of Energy Science & Engineering, the forum is constituted under the the Indo-German technical cooperation project ‘Energy Storage for Renewable Energy Integration in India’ (StoREin), commissioned by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) under the umbrella of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and jointly implemented by  the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.