Report wind energy installations anticipated this yr, offshore tender by September 

Chennai Wind energy installations within the present monetary yr are anticipated to be at an all-time excessive. Installations in 2024-25 will likely be 6.5-7 GW, in contrast with 3.2 GW final yr, Lalit Bohra, Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Vitality, mentioned right here at the moment. 

“Wind is seeing super progress,” Bohra mentioned, talking at a International Wind Day occasion organised right here by the Indian Wind Turbine Producers Affiliation (IWTMA). 

Probably the most the wind business put up in India in any yr to date has been 5,400 MW in 2016-17, when the business rushed to finish tasks to catch some expiring incentives. 

Bohra identified that India at the moment has over 46 GW of wind capability and mentioned the quantity would enhance quick within the coming years. (Talking on the occasion, Ishwar Chand Mangal, CEO- New Enterprise, Suzlon, famous that India had come a great distance, from simply 38 MW in 1996 to 46 GW at the moment.) 

The main focus of the assembly was the tendering for offshore wind capability. Bohra mentioned the primary tender with authorities’s viability hole funding (VGF) help may very well be out as early as September – for 500 MW of capability close to Gujarat. 

In February, the MNRE issued a young for seabed allocation for a sea space sufficiently big to accommodate 4 GW of offshore wind capability. The bids are to be opened in July, after the brand new authorities takes over.  

Rajesh Katyal, Director Normal, Nationwide Institute of Wind Vitality (NIWE), the nodal company for offshore, mentioned that NIWE has arrange three LiDARs (devices that may measure wind speeds) at three places – two on the Tuticorin port and one at close by Udangudi. The information from the LiDARs present that the area has wind speeds of 9.5-10 meters per second for 7-8 months in a yr.