India to add 20GW wind capacity by 2025: GWEC

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India will install 20GW of wind capacity over 2021-25, according to the India wind energy market outlook released by Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) on Monday. About 90 per cent of this capacity addition will come from Central tenders, followed by corporate procurement and lastly State markets, GWEC said.

Currently, India has a pipeline of 10.3GW in Central and State markets, which is expected to drive installations until 2023 in the market. The market post-2023 is likely to be driven by 10GW of new capacity awards to wind, majorly in hybrid formats, GWEC said.

The linking of utility-scale wind and solar technology will be a crucial lever for the volumes, it added. Over the past two years, wind capacity awarded by the Centre fell from a high of 6.4GW in 2018 to 1GW in 2020. Volume awarded through hybrid tenders, however, has risen from 0.8GW in 2018 to 2.8GW in 2020.

New tenders
“Notification of new tenders and pricing fitment of the hybrid tender will remain crucial for the opening of hybrid volume,” the outlook said.

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The Hindu businessline
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