Will India’s new wind-energy push make green jobs fly?
As a child, Nandha Kishore S.R. was fascinated by the wind turbine installed at a wind energy institute near his home in southern India and dreamt of one day operating such equipment.
Years later, the engineering graduate trained at the same institute in Chennai and started working in the sector, first assessing India’s wind energy potential, then calculating power production and now checking site suitability for wind farms.
That helped him weather a troubled period for the industry in the past five years, which saw downsizing and stunted growth after a new bidding process for wind farm development – intended to cut the cost of power production – led to stranded projects.
