The Wind Energy Scenario in India

The Indian energy sector is greatly dominated by the demand for coal. This dependence is due to the fact that the majority of the total installed electricity-generation capacity in the country is coal based. India is the fourth-largest end user of crude oil and natural gas in the world after the US, China and Russia. 

According to the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017), the demand for coal is expected to increase. The development of wind power in India began in the 1990s, and has progressed steadily in the last few years. The short gestation period for installing wind turbines, coupled with their increasing reliability and performance, has made wind power a favored choice for capacity addition in India. 

Wind-power generation in India has grown considerably over the years. With the severe need for electrification and energy production, wind energy is going to provide an increasingly significant share of the renewable based capacity.  Although a relative newcomer to the wind industry compared with Denmark or the United States, India has the fifth largest installed wind power capacity in the world. In 2009-10 India's growth rate was highest among the other top four countries.  s of Oct 2013 the installed capacity of wind power in India was 19933.68MW, mainly spread across Tamil Nadu (7154 MW), Gujarat (3,093 MW), Maharashtra (2976 MW), Karnataka (2113 MW), Rajasthan (2355 MW), Madhya Pradesh (386 MW), Andhra Pradesh (435 MW), Kerala (35.1 MW), Orissa (2MW), West Bengal (1.1 MW) and other states (3.20 MW).

It is estimated that 6,000 MW of additional wind power capacity will be installed in India by 2014.Wind power accounts for 8.5% of India's total installed power capacity, and it generates 1.6% of the country's power. India's wind atlas is available.

Wind power capacity and production

Worldwide there are now over two hundred thousand wind turbines operating, with a total nameplate capacity of 282,482 MW as of end 2012. The European Union alone passed some 100,000 MW nameplate capacity in September 2012, while the United States surpassed 50,000 MW in August 2012 and China passed 50,000 MW the same month

Top 10 countries by nameplate windpower capacity (2012 year-end)
Country	New 2012 capacity (MW)	Windpower total capacity (MW)	% world total
China	12,960	75,324	26.7
United States	13,124	60,007	21.2
Germany	2,145	31,308	11.1
Spain	1,122	22,796	8.1
India	2,336	18,421	6.5
UK	1,897	8,845	3.0
Italy	1,273	8,144	2.9
France	757	7,564	2.7
Canada	935	6,200	2.2
Portugal	145	4,525	1.6
(rest of world)	6,737	39,853	14.1
World total	44,799 MW	282,587 MW	100%

 

Top 10 countries by windpower electricity production (2011 totals)
Country	Windpower production (TWh)	% world total
United States	120.5	26.2
China	88.6	19.3
Germany	48.9	10.6
Spain	42.4	9.2
India	24.9	5.4
Canada	19.7	4.3
UK	15.5	3.4
France	12.2	2.7
Italy	9.9	2.1
Denmark	9.8	2.1
(rest of world)	67.7	14.7
World total	459.9 TWh	100%

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power