The development of wind power in India began in the 1990s, and has significantly increased in the last few years. Although a relative newcomer to the wind industry compared with Denmark or the United States, India has the fifth largest installed wind power capacity in the world. In 2009-10 India's growth rate was highest among the other top four countries.
The MNRE has announced a revised estimation of the potential wind resource in India from 49,130 MW assessed at 50m Hub heights to 102,788 MW assessed at 80m Hub height.[3] The wind resource at higher Hub heights that are prevailing is possibly even more. In the year 2015, the MNRE set the target for Wind Power generation capacity by the year 2022 at 60,000 MW.
As of 30 Sept 2015 the installed capacity of wind power in India was 24,376 MW, mainly spread across South, West and North regions. East and North east regions have no grid connected wind power plant as of March, 2015 end. No offshore wind power farm utilizing traditional fixed-bottom wind turbine technologies in shallow sea areas or floating wind turbine technologies in deep sea areas is under implementation.
Considering the growing need for energy, the Indian wind power scenario is currently in a dynamic phase of high growth.
Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association has launched Windergy India – a unique digital platform to create awareness about the Wind Energy sector in India. Windergy India, is slated to be the voice of the Wind Energy industry.
About Windergy India
Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association has launched Windergy India – a unique digital platform to create awareness about the Wind Energy sector in India. Windergy India, is slated to be the voice of the Wind Energy industry.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has set ambitious targets for the Wind Energy sector. As the sector aims to reach 60,000 MW capacities, it needs the support of the government.
Windergy India aims to create wider public awareness on the benefits of wind energy, and the sectors efforts in India. Its mission to develop recommendation for Wind Energy among the general public.
Towards this, we have set up our presence on social media platforms. We are also developing a website, and working on a series of campaigns to help spread awareness about the benefits of wind energy as a viable solution to India's energy crisis and its impact on global warming and climate change.
LET'S LOOK AT SOME KEY FACTS:
- Total Installed Capacity: 211,800 MW
- Peak Demand Shortage: 9%
- Energy Shortage: 8.7%
- Growth in Demand: 3.7%
- Proposed Capacity Additions: 88,00 MW by 2017
The states with highest wind power concentration are Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
Growing concern for the environmental degradation has led to the world's interest in renewable energy resources. Wind is commercially and operationally the most viable renewable energy resource and accordingly, emerging as one of the largest source in terms of the renewable energy sector.
Today, the Indian market is emerging as one of the major manufacturing hubs for wind turbines in Asia. Currently, seventeen manufacturers have an annual production capacity of 7,500 MW.
According to GWEC, India could have 89 GW of installed wind capacity by 2020 up from 19GW at present, helping to fight a growing power shortage in the country
Wind energy will witness abundant opportunities in the developing economies such as India, where the power supply situation and infrastructure development efforts provide a huge market for active investment.
Source: www.gwec.net
India‘s Unique Proposition
- Geographic Location and Wind Potential: The potential is far from exhausted. It is estimated that with the current level of technology, the ‘on-shore’ potential for utilization of wind energy for electricity generation is of the order of 65,000 MW. India also is blessed with 7517km of coastline and its territorial waters extend up to 12 nautical miles into the sea. The unexploited resource availability has the potential to sustain the growth of wind energy sector in India in the years to come. Potential areas can be identified on Indian map using Wind Power Density map. C-WET, one of pioneering Wind Research organization in the country is leading in all such resource studies and has launched its Wind Resource map.In a step towards identifying and properly exploiting these wind resources, MNRE has estimated state-wise wind power potential in the country.
- World Market Share: According to REN21- Global Status Report 2011 (GSR-2011), Indian company Suzlon was among top ten manufacturers of Wind Turbine manufacturer’s in the world with world market share of 6.7%. Also major world companies are pouring into the fast evolving Wind Energy market in India: Vestas, GE Wind, Enercon and Gamesa have already opened up their establishments across various cities in India.
- Government Support and Policies: Several states have come up with renewable energy policies like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. More details of and summary for such policies is available on this page.
- Installed Capacity: According to MNRE ‘s achievent report, The cumulative installed capacity of Grid Interactive Wind Energy in India by the end of September 2011 was 14989MW (of which 833MW was installed during 2011-2012 against a target of 2400MW). Aerogenerators and hybrid systems contributed 1.20MW during 2011-12 to yield cumulative off-grid wind capacity of 15.55MW.
- India in the windy world: In 2008, India shared 6.58% of total wind energy installed capacity around the world, according to World Wind Energy Report-2008. According to GSR-2011, the world witnessed highest renewable energy installations through wind energy. Total installed capacity of wind energy reached 198GW by the end of 2010. India ranked third in the world in annual capacity additions and fifth in terms of total wind energy installed capacity. India has been able to fast pace its growth in wind energy installations and bring down costs of power production. The GSR 2011 reported on-shore wind power (1.5-3.5MW; Rotor diameter 60-100m) at 5-9 cents/kWh and off shore wind power (1.5-5MW; Rotor diameter 75-120m) at 10-20 cents/kWh. But India’s onshore wind power cost reached 6-9cents/kWh in 2008 itself (Indian Renewable Energy Status Report-2010).
- Clean Wind to overcome power shortage: Electricity losses in India during transmission and distribution have been extremely high over the years and this reached a worst proportion of about 24.7% during 2010-11. India is in a pressing need to tide over a peak power shortfall of 13% by reducing losses due to theft. Theft of electricity, common in most parts of urban India, amounts to 1.5% of India’s GDP. Due to shortage of electricity, power cuts are common throughout India and this has adversely affected the country’s economic growth. Hence a cheaper, non-polluting and environment friendly solution to power rural India is needed.
- Wind energy as job generator: Wind energy utilization creates many more jobs than centralized, non-renewable energy sources. Wind Energy companies have opened up huge career options. Also the ease and accessibility of manufacturing technology has given entrepreneurs with new business options to venture in. The wind sector worldwide has become a major job generator: Within only three years, the wind sector worldwide almost doubled the number of jobs from 235,000 in 2005 to 440,000 in the year 2008. These highly skilled employees are contributing to the generation of 260 TWh of electricity.
Capacity Installed
A notable feature of the Indian programme has been the interest among private investors/developers in setting up of commercial wind power projects. Several companies have established themselves in wind technology manufacturing. The gross potential is 48,561 MW (source C-wet) and a total of about 14,158.00 MW of commercial projects have been established until March 31, 2011. All projects installed in India are listed on this page. The break-up of projects implemented in prominent wind potential states (as on March 31, 2011) is as given below:
State | Gross Potential (MW) | Total Capacity (MW) till 31.03.2011 |
Andhra Pradesh | 8968 | 200.2 |
Gujarat | 10,645 | 2175.6 |
Karnataka | 11,531 | 1730.1 |
Kerala | 1171 | 32.8 |
Madhya Pradesh | 1019 | 275.5 |
Maharashtra | 4584 | 2310.7 |
Orissa | 255 | - |
Rajasthan | 4858 | 1524.7 |
Tamil Nadu | 5530 | 5904.4 |
Others | - | 4 |
Total | 48,561 | 14,158 |
Source: InWEA, more details on State-Wise Cumulative Wind Generation Data
Links
Facebook: Windergy India Page: facebook.com/windergy. india
Twitter: Windergy India Handle: https://twitter.com/ WindergyIndia
You Tube: Windergy India Channel: https://www.youtube. com/channel/ UC8QB02llnGtutknhUyouHIw