Cement, Energy and Environment

electricity consumption in the country. It also provides thrust on development of RE power generation through REC mechanism. The NAPCC has set target of 5 per cent of total power purchase from various RE sources in the country in 2009- 10, and this target will increase by 1% each year for the next 10 years. Courtesy: REGULATERI: Quarterly Review of Regulatory Developments, Issue 43, December 2009, P3. USING MODERN INTERCONNECTION TECHNOLOGY TO FULFILL THE PROMISE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY IN INDIA Tony Siebert, Director of facts and D-VAR Business, AMSC systems and Sudhir Gadh, Country Manager, AMSC India India currently has about 13.2 gigawatts (GW) of renewable generation on line, accounting for nearly 9 per cent of India's overall power generating capacity. Nearly 77 per cent of this is in the form of wind energy while the installed base of solar energy is presently small. The Indian government has ambitious plans to boost the output of all forms of renewable energy-solar, wind energy, small hydro projects, waste-to-energy, biomass co-generation systems and alternate fuel. As per the recently announced National Solar Mission, the country plans to expand solar power capacity from a virtually negligible base to 20 GW by 2020 and to 1 00 GW by 2030. Courtesy: energetica, January/ February 2010, P30. Wind THE INDIAN WIND ENERGY SECTOR ANALYSIS The Indian wind power sector projected high growth rates in 1995 - 2005. This was backed by several incentives by the Government to support investments in the private sector. However, in the last 4 years, growth in the total installed capacity has been stagnant. This resulted in India losing out to China in terms of total installed wind power capacity and annual wind power installations in 2008. With a severe decline of about 14 per cent in 2007, the market has been projecting a stagnant growth rate of 10 per cent in the last 2 years. Annual wind energy capacity additions are expected to remain at the current 1700 -2000 MW over the next 2-3 years. Existing growth rates are expected to continue to remain constant (about 10 per cent) in the near future. The entire sector is urgently in need of quick state intervention to infuse growth and make the market buoyant. Curnutattv. Wind Po-.r CapKiy -IIIW (India) 14.000 12.000 u,aao - e,sn ....--- ~0.000 7,a50 ~ - 8,000 e..uo - 4,430 - .t,OOO 2..000 ~. 0 2006 2007 2008 Source: GWEC, Frost & Sullivan estimates. 12000 oOlina •India 102i0 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 2006 'KJ/J7 2008 2009 (E) Source: GWEC, Frost & Sullivan estimates. 54 y