Dr. G Giridhar, is a former Director, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, New Delhi. Joined the Ministry in 1989 as Senior Scientific Officer and retired from the Ministry as Director in April, 2019. From 2011 to till retirement, he was posted as Deputy Director General (DDG) in National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), an autonomous R&D institution under the MNRE. As DDG at NIWE, he was heading Solar Energy Resource Assessment (SRRA) Division and installed World's largest number Solar Radiation Measurement Stations across the country.

The Thoduvanum Energy Trust (TET) was created to align itself to this particular Government of India (and UN SDG Goal 7) initiative and its aim to make aware, sensitize, educate and skill in these sunrise sectors of green energy, among others.