It is an open secret that renewable power requires incentives - these usually are in the form of capital subsidies, tax incentives and most importantly, via feed in tariffs. It is a million dollar (make that Billion Dollar) question what the future of feed in tariffs will be for the...

Here are some interesting web resources that provide tariff guidelines from the CERC, for the various states From the Hindu BusinessLine From the Horse's Mouth - from CERC - Link 1 & Link 2

For a highly intermittent power source such as wind, forecasting and scheduling are critical aspects. When wind provides less than 3% of the total electricity produced in India, this volatility could be acceptable. But when we are looking wind scaling to 50000 MW by 2020 ( from the current 17000...

Many individuals and industry professionals had enquired me about the penalties for non-compliance for RPO (renewable purchase obligations). Of course, implementing obligation compliance is a difficult thing indeed. In countries such as India, which are considered "soft states" when it comes to implementing any policies against anyone, leave alone against...

If you are in the Indian wind power sector, you would have definitely heard the terms IEGC and RRF often. IEGC stands for Indian Electricity Grid Code, while RRF stands for Renewable Regulatory Fund. Why are these two terms important in the context of wind power? Wind power being a...

India has the world's fifth largest wind power installed capacity, at 17000 MW. The state of TN alone has a 7 GW of installed capacity. Anyone reading these numbers would say, "Wow". But the opinion is rather divided whether the wind power sector has really provided all the benefits that...

While I was analysing, for one of our clients, the drivers and bottlenecks for wind power financing, I came across a fairly well made out white paper that discussed the framework for mobilising European investment in the Indian wind power sector. Though it was originally done in 2007, I thought...

A recent report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LNBL) has estimated that India's wind power potential could be as high as 2 million MW, that is 2000 GW. This is a phenomenally large number and in theory at least implies that wind power can satisfy all India's power needs for...

Here is a good list of companies in India making small wind turbines - LIST Companies listed include the following: Digitech Reneawable Energy Development Organisation Trueskill Energen Pvt Ltd Vaigunth Ener Tek (P) Ltd. Pioneer Wincon Private Limited M/S Spectrum Electronics PM Generators Ltd. KANETRON Airstream India Bindal Technopolymer Chandra...

I read a news article dated almost 2 years back about Tata Group's plans for small wind. It goes as follows" "Tata Power Company, a subsidiary of the Tata group, plans to test a 2 kW wind turbine which would generate enough electricity to meet the basic demands of an...