: The central government is working on a plan to pool wind power bids to diversify projects across states that have the scope for it, power minister RK Singh said, adding that his ministry is targeting bids of at least 8 GW per year of wind energy to boost the sector.
The move comes at a time when wind energy installations have slowed in the country, even as the government has set a target of setting up wind energy projects totalling 140 GW by 2030. Against this target, India has an installed capacity of about 40 GW of wind projects, data from the ministry of new and renewable energy showed.
“We are lagging behind in harnessing wind energy. What happened 3-4 years ago was that distribution companies (discoms) used to buy wind energy on the basis of feed-in tariff.
