Welcome 2021

Arise! Awake! And stop not until the goal is reached! Starting 2021 with this vibrant quote by Swami Vivekananda and the goal of course is to Innovate, Integrate & Illuminate our world with #GoodEnergy Solutions.

Good Riddance to 2020! That’s the popular sentiment across the world. With the COVID-19 Vaccine in sight, we can finally look forward to a year where we rebuild our world, a Healthy and Prosperous world.

The lockdowns of 2020 have taught us the necessity of planning, the importance of not taking our world and our life for granted, it has given us important lessons in ‘Just in Time’ and most importantly made us Humans aware of our capabilities and weaknesses. That a Vaccine could be developed in a record 10-month time, is something that experts would have dismissed as a wild fantasy. The Pfizers, Serums, Astrazeneca’s of the world have proven what a human mind and human will are capable of doing.

I want to start this year by expressing my gratitude to all the scientists and pharma Entrepreneurs who have achieved the impossible. Closer to home, I want to thank Mr. Poonawalla for his relentless and untiring efforts to bring the most affordable COVID-19 vaccine to life. We shall forever remain indebted to the efforts put in by one and all working across the globe on the Vaccine.

The clear blue skies that appeared during the COVID-19 lockdown were a powerful symbol of how COVID-19 is a fast-moving crisis within a slow-moving one that it in some way resembles. Like the pandemic, climate change is impervious to populist denials, global in the disruption it causes and will be far more costly to deal with in the future if it is neglected now. We do not have a Planet B, nor will we have a Second Chance, if we don’t act NOW!

Just like the vaccine for COVID-19, the world needs a vaccine for Climate change. Hydrogen seems to be that vaccine the world needs, to win over the crises caused by Climate Change. Solutions based on technologies that produce, convert, store and dispense Hydrogen are the vaccine candidates that will rid us of the poisonous effects of pollution. Fuel Cell, SALT Batteries, SALT based Air conditioning, e-Fuels from renewables are the key to preventing a catastrophe that is waiting to happen. From industry to homes, every part of the energy consumption chain has to become clean and green. It also is the right time for us to take adequate precautions, wear our Climate Change mask and in our own small but significant way contribute to averting the climate crises.

And while we try to win over this challenge, we must, as a human race, also look at Energy Justice. The developing world and the have nots deserve access to energy in order to live a respectable and a happy life and it is on us innovators and Energy Entrepreneurs to bring affordable and simple to use solutions that can bring Prosperity thru Power to our fellow human beings who are living under abject energy poverty.

I sign in to 2021, with my first blog and with a renewed pledge, both personally and also on behalf of my company h2e Power Systems, that we will continue on our chosen path to fulfill our vision of providing 24x7 clean, green, reliable and affordable energy to all. The real journey has just begun. The future of Energy: Green Hydrogen is nearer and more achievable than ever before. From the sun and the wind and all the waste we generate, we can create an Energy Independent world.

I am reminded by a motivating quote by the great Albert Einstein:

 I am thankful for all those who said NO to me. It is because of them I am doing it myself.

All it takes is willingness and a sense of urgency on part of each one of us to contribute and help our planet. I urge all of you to join this movement to Develop a Vaccine for Climate Change. We Owe it to our Mother Earth!

Wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous 2021. Hope the year is filled with GoodEnergy.