Consultants in the wind energy field

Garad Hassan:- This is an International renewable energy consultancy, which has come up with special package for sub 5 MW projects.

Romax :- It has set up a Wind Business Centre in Chennai and an office in Pune.

SGS:- It has completed CLP's Theni project.

SKF :- for remote monitoring of turbines. Employed by Gouhua Wind the Chinese major.

PINTSCH BEBENZER: for turbine brake system.

More Wow ! to Indian Wind Energy Sector

While Vestas is partying after order of 20 turbines ( 1.65 MW ) from Orient Green for Tmilnadu windfarm, Asian Development Bank ( ADB )+NTPC+Kyushu have formed JV to produce 10,000 MW wind power in the country.
AMSC has completed the follow on order from INOX. Turbine control system of AMSC will be utilised in 2 MW machines ( manufactured in UNA (HP)).

Rapid Fire on Wind Energy

• What is Horns Rev2?  Ans ) It is one of the world's largest windfarm in North Se- Denmark. Dong Energy's Rs 3000 Crore 200 MW plant ( 2.3 MW turbines).
• What turbines are there in Theni windfarm of TN? Ans) Vestas V82 1.65 ( ordered by CLP).
• Which generator plant is located in Vengal- Chennai? Ans) WinWind
• Whose model is 1.5 XLE ? Ans) GE.
• Where is Gamesa's ( spanish wind major) plant in India? Ans) In Chennai having capacity of 500 MW per year.
• How many new offshore turbines Europe adds in a year? Ans) 300
• What is the latest wind power forecast tool? Ans) NWP model. 
• What's latest in offshore turbines? Ans) Floating turbines ! ( Hywind, windfloat)
• How many wind turbine manufacturers are there in India? Ans) 18 
• • Who has set up a wind turbine test center in Chennai? Ans ) Vesats
• • Where Gamesa is isntalling G9X-2 MW turbines with China's Guangdong? Ans) Inner Mongolia
• • When InWEA was set up? Ans) 2002
• How much offshore turbine installation vessel cost? Ans) USD 100,000

Some Wind Energy News

• Maneja in Gujrat manufactures ABB wind turbines ( 100 turbines in a month).
• India's wind energy states are KN,GJ,AP,TN,RJ,MH and MP.
• TamilNadu is the state where Suzlon thrives. Over 1500 MW intsalled capacity. Latest orders were from Techno-Electric.
• There are some 14000 wind turbines in India. Some 2000 of these are of 1.5 MW range. Some 100 of these are 2.1 MW range. ( mainly S88 of Suzlon).
• AMSC has supplied 2 MW doubly fed induction wind turbines to Inox.
• Thanet (UK) is the largest offshore windfarm ( 300 MW). 115 m tall Vantenfall turbines in 35 square km area mark the site.

Some rapid fire on Wind Energy

• Globally, Wind Power stands at 20 GW today and is growing by 25 % p.a.
• Germany, Denmark, Spain have almost utilized their full potential.
• Days of 100 feet towers are gone. Now 250 feet towers are in. ( Cost of tower used to offset value of extra electricity till now)
• Though 2 blade turbines capture almost same energy as 3 blade rotors, they fail to withstand wind gust.
• Europe produces some 12 GW wind poer ( Germany 6 GW, Denmark and Spain 2 GW each), US produces  5 GW.
• Capital Expenditure per MW stands Rs 40 million and the generation cost is Rs 3 per Unit.
• For financing 15 MW ( in 300 acres) project @ Rs 700 million:- Interest free foreign currency loan ( Rs 400 Million), Rupee term loan from ICICI ( Rs 120 million) and promotors contribution would be Rs 180 million.
• AWT, a unit of Denmark's NEG Micon has manufacturing plant in Chennai.
• China does wonders. In just one year it doubled its capacity to about 30 GW.
• NAPCC target of getting 5 % + electricity from renewables and addition of 15% capacity in next 10 years seem difficult to achieve.
• Hongkong based CLP s investing huge in India.