At the Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference
NoviOcean presented on the emerging-technologies panel in Gujarat and held four meetings about what a first Indian pilot would take — power, desalinated water, and the offshore infrastructure that already exists.
Following the Dubai leg of the same trip, NoviOcean’s founder and CEO, Jan Skjoldhammer, travelled to India at the invitation of Dr. Biswajit Roy for the Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference 2025. He presented, and joined the expert panel on emerging technologies — geothermal, tidal and wave energy.
The meetings
Four conversations followed. All of them were discussions; none of them is an agreement.
- Hon. Shri Kanubhai Desai, Minister for Finance, Energy & Petrochemicals — a private meeting on where hybrid offshore generation could fit the state’s energy plans.
- Mr. Rajendra J. Vala, GUVNL — discussed the financing of a first Indian NoviOcean pilot producing both clean power and desalinated water.
- Mr. Ajay Dashore, ONGC — discussed financing a first Medi Wave 850H and the idea of repurposing offshore rigs for renewable production of hydrogen, ammonia, ethanol, electricity or water, taken ashore through pipelines that are already there. That thinking sits under Further Applications.
- Dr. Sudheer Joseph, INCOIS — discussed support for a research-based pilot at the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
What is and is not settled
Counting the UAE conversations from the first half of the trip, four parties management estimate have expressed interest in participating in the financing of a first full-scale pilot, in part or in full. That is where it stands: interest, in discussion, nothing signed.
The engineering sequence is unaffected by any of it. The NO3 triple-hybrid demonstrator is the current stage (2026, TRL 6–7); the full-scale Medi Wave 850H pilot is the next major phase, 2027–2028, TRL 7–8. projected
Why India
India combines a long coastline, a large offshore industry with existing platforms and pipelines, growing coastal demand and islands that are expensive to supply. Those are the same conditions that make the technology interesting in the Philippines, Indonesia, the Caribbean and the Atlantic islands — the markets set out under Applications and priced under Remote Islands & Coastal Communities.
Investor and strategic dialogues run through Investor Relations; the current investor material is shared, dated and in context, after an introductory meeting. Project and customer conversations start at Book a Meeting.
Platform images on this page are for illustration only — the actual design is shared in closer dialogues.