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THE POTENTIAL:

Although India has a high wind power installed capacity, yet the country lacks proper utilization of the wind resources. As per one of the studies made by the "Global World Energy Council" India has the capability to construct wind power stations and plants that can generate about 5 times more in comparison to the estimations made by the Government, by the year 2030. The Reference scenario, which is derived from the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2007, starts off with an assumed growth rate of 15.5% for 2009, decreases to 6.5% by 2010, and then stabilises at 3% by 2016. As a result, the scenario foresees that by the end of this decade, cumulative capacity in India would have reached 12.5 G Gigawatts (GW), producing 22.5 TWh per year. By 2020, installed wind energy capacity in India would stand at 20.3 G GW, growing to 27.3 GW by 2030.

State wise Wind Energy Potential Capacity