The Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA), an apex wind energy sector body, has said that India’s total installed wind power generation capacity has crossed 32 GW mark so far. It also said that there should be at least 6 GW of capacity addition every year in order to meet the target of having 60 GW by 2022.
IWTMA Chairman Sarvesh Kumar has said that the country's wind power generation capacity is over 32 GW after addition of 5.4 GW in the previous fiscal. Talking about the expected capacity addition in 2017-18, he said that they are going to add 6 GW and it is based on certain fundamental as the government alone will auction 4 GW of capacities during this fiscal. Elaborating further, he said that apart from government auctions, there would be addition of wind power capacities by the industry and institutions.
In February 2017, the government has decided to go through the bidding route as the first ever auction of wind power projects, where power tariffs dropped to all-time low of Rs 3.46 per unit. Wind power capacity of 1 GW was auctioned by the Solar Energy Corporation of India in the month of February. In terms of wind capacity installation, India is at the fourth position globally after China, the US and Germany.
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