A POTENTIAL ASSESSMENT

India’s Power SectorDespite Government of India’s (GOI) endeavour to augment powergeneration capacity of different sources, demand and supply gap isincreasing;

Energy shortage in 2007‐ 08 was estimated at 10% ( touching 17% duringpeak seasons);

By 2012, India’s energy requirement to touch 975,222 MU ( and peakdemand 1,571,070 MU); an increase of 31.9% and 44.3% respectivelyfrom the current demand; *

GOI aims to increase the per capita consumption of electricity to 1000units by year 2012, envisaged a capacity addition of 100,000 MW to meetits mission of ‘Power for All by 2012’;

* Central Electricity Authority  (CEA) estimates 

India’s Power Sector

Currently 24.7 % of installed energy generation capacity is from hydropower, 64.6% from thermal generation including gas;

Nuclear energy constitutes about 2.9% and non‐conventional energysources, of which wind energy is predominant, constitute about 7.7%;

Thermal, 93475.34 

MW

Hydro, 36877.76 

MWNuclear, 4102 

MW

Renewable Energy Sources, 13242.41 

MW

Source: Ministry of Power, Government of India (as on Feb 28, 2009) 

India’s Power Sector

State Sector, 76115.77

Central Sector, 

48970.99

Private Sector, 

22628.75

Total Installed Capacity (in MW)

Source: Ministry of Power, Government of India (as on Feb 28, 2009) 

Wind Energy SectorWind, hydro, biomass and solar are the main renewable energy sources;

Wind energy has posted the highest growth rates;

26.95 billion units of electricity were generated from wind during 2005‐06 to 2007‐08;

In 2008, India added 1,800 MW taking the total wind energy installedcapacity to 9,645 MW;

This placed it in the 5th position in the world, after USA (25,170 MW),Germany (23,900 MW), Spain (16,754 MW) and China (12,210 MW);

Source: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India

Wind Energy Sector

450

1000

1500

1716 17421663

2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

Wind Power Generation: Target Vs Achievement ( In MW)

Target Achievement

Source: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India

Wind Energy: GOI PolicyUnder the 11th Five Year Plan (2007 to 2012), GOI has envisaged plans toincrease the installed capacity of renewable energy to 10 per cent of totalpower generation;

Out of 70,000 MW installed capacity addition during the 11th Planperiod, 14,500 MW (about 20%) capacity additions is proposed fromrenewable.;

A bulk of the proposed renewable power capacity addition is expectedthrough private investment, for which a suitable policy environmentwould need to continue;

Source: Planning Commission, Government of India

Wind Energy: GOI PolicyA target of 10,500 MW has been fixed for Eleventh Five Year Plan for windpower capacity addition through commercial projects with private sectorinvestments;

Source: Planning Commission, Government of India

Grid‐interactive wind power projects

Physical Targets of 11th Plan 10500 MW

Proposed Outlay Rs 75 Crore (for demo)

Distributed/decentralized wind power

Physical Targets of 11th Plan 950 MW

Proposed Outlay Rs 1900 Crore

Wind Energy: GOI PolicyGOI has taken various steps to promote Wind Energy in the country;

In the 11th Five Year Plan the Government has announced CentralFinancial Assistance schemes (CFA) for the Grid‐interactive renewablepower projects;

The government provides subsidies for the distributed/ decentralizedpower projects that are and also dispersed generation of electricity;

A provision of Rs.75 crore is being kept for demonstration wind powerproject in States where there is sizable potential but no commercialactivity has commenced;

GOI has announced Generation based incentives (GBI) for Grid InteractiveWind Power Projects” during 2008‐09 to 2011‐12.

Source: Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India

Wind Energy: PotentialTamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujaratand Madhya Pradesh account for over 99% of wind power installations inIndia;

The state wise achievement in the last three years

Source: Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India

State 2005‐06 2006‐07 2007‐08

Andhra Pradesh 0.5 0.8 0.0

Gujarat 84.5 284 617

Karnataka 144 266 190

Kerala 0.0 0.0 8.5

Madhya Pradesh 11 16 130

Rajasthan 73 112 69

Tamil Nadu 858 578 381

Wind Energy: PotentialThe capacity addition depends on various factors such as quality of windpotential, land availability for wind power generation and gridpenetration etc;

Source: Center for Wind Energy Technology

Wind Energy: PotentialAccording to an assessment of AWS Truewind, India has an wind potentialof 65,000 MW;

There are land areas with excellent wind project potential where windspeeds exceed 9.0 m/s at 80 meter hub height in some of the higherelevations;

Lower elevation areas also show promise with speeds at 100 m heightranging from 6.5 m/s ‐ 8.0 m/s;

The significant resource coupled with continued government supportmakes India a very attractive location for wind development;