India's wind industry players confident of reaching 60 GW goal

Achievement is pegged by 2022.

Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers’ Association (IWTMA), an association formed to promote and harness wind energy in India recently announced its support to Ministry of New Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India in fulfilling the target of creating 60 GW of wind energy by the year 2022.

According to a release from Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers’ Association, the growth of Renewable Energy in India is enormous and Wind Energy proves to be the most effective solution to the problem of depleting fossil fuels, importing of coal, greenhouse gas emission, environmental pollution etc.

Mr. Madhusudan Khemka Chairman IWTMA said, “We fully support the “Make in India Campaign” with our turbines of state-of-the-art technology which has almost 70% localization.

We also aim at creating rural employment both direct and indirect during the project stage and employment for manufacturing and the estimated persons to be employed which will go up to 160,000 persons by 2022. Addressing these key challenges and issues we are confident of achieving 60 GW target”.

Mrs. Varsha Joshi, IAS, Joint Secretary at Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India concluded the session outlining that all the deliberated discussions with the stakeholders are part of the wind policy.

This draft published by the Ministry, will grow to become a comprehensive policy. She added that there is equal emphasis for action and monitoring at the state level.

Here's more from Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers’ Association:

Wind energy as a renewable, non-polluting and affordable source directly avoids dependency of fuel and transport, can lead to green and clean electricity. With an installed capacity of 21136.3 MW (March 2014) of wind energy, Renewable Energy Sources (excluding large Hydro) currently accounts for 13.86 % of India’s overall installed power capacity of 228721.73 MW.

Wind Energy holds the major portion of 66.7 % (of 31707.2 GW total RE capacity) among renewable and continued as the largest supplier of clean energy.