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Published:November 27, 2017 12:35 PM
India is growing at a fast pace. Energy is the key to achieve India’s development goals, to support a rapidly developing economy, to bring electricity to those who remain without it, and to develop the infrastructure to meet the needs of what is soon expected to be the world’s most populous country. India’s well-developed wind power industry has the capability and experience to help meet the country’s climate and energy security goals. Today India is the 4th largest wind market globally; with total installations having crossed the 32.7 GW mark in September 2017. The industry is firmly on its path on meeting the short-term national target of 60GW by 2022. This will need the local, regional and national Transmission System Operator (TSOs) to develop a long-term strategy for higher integration of variable renewable power generation including offshore wind. Although costs of offshore wind projects are higher, there are clear indications that they can be brought down substantially through experience and economies of scale. The rewards in India have the potential to be great: a strong, steady resource that can play a major role in supplying clean energy to the major load centres in coastal cities and industrial areas. The growth of renewable energy in India has been driven by concerns over local air pollution, international climate commitments, need for energy security and the falling prices of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). From 2007 to 2016 grid-connected Renewable Energy Sources (RES) had a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 21.8%. However, offshore wind remains an important untapped resource that can make an important contribution to further de-carbonising India’s electricity. Offshore wind projects do not face the issues around land acquisition, typically deliver higher capacity factors compared to onshore wind are synergistic with solar PV generation. Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Limited (GETCO) and Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) conducted power evacuation studies for integrating 500 MW of offshore wind in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu respectively by 2021-22. These study results indicate that the onshore grid infrastructure shall be adequate to evacuate offshore wind power most of the time. One of the concerns indicated in GETCO study is that offshore wind generation curtailment shall be necessary in off-peak conditions when the demand falls substantially. Under such circumstances, the power shall be exported outside the state via various inter-state transmission corridors. On the other hand, TANGEDCO study emphasises the requirement of timely onshore grid development to secure onshore grid connectivity and power evacuation for the proposed offshore wind generation. The MNRE has set ambitious targets for RES in India of 175 GW by 2022. At present this is expected to comprise solar PV, onshore wind, small hydro and biomass with no specific targets yet for offshore wind. Aside from existing RES initiatives described and due to the early stage of the industry, offshore wind specific policies and code frameworks are not presently developed in India; namely: Lack of clear offshore wind build-out targets to enable state and national infrastructure planning for offshore wind The lack of a framework for delivery and ownership of offshore grid systems to connect offshore wind A lack of specific treatment of offshore wind in technical and regulatory codes and processes To ensure that these would not become barriers to the scope of offshore wind energy development in India, guidance on the treatment of initial, pilot, offshore wind projects would be beneficial as well as a wider policy and code review in light of future industry growth scenarios. As of now, Offshore Wind in India (FOWIND) consortium has commissioned India's first offshore LiDAR. The LiDAR is located off the coast of India's western state of Gujarat, in the Gulf of Khambhat. It will provide data to help Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) examine the offshore wind potential in India along the country's coastline.The device has been procured from MeteoPole and installed on a platform developed by India's National Institute of Wind Energy. This is an important first step on the long road to establishing a vibrant and cost-effective offshore wind industry in India. It is still in early phase of development and the offshore market in India is expected to have a robust development only after 2022 when government will plan some targets for installations with respect to windy states like Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Kerala etc. InfralineEnergy Disclaimer: The views expressed here are solely those of the author in his private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the InfralineEnergy (Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.). The organization is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein and any direct/indirect consequences resulting therefrom.
India is growing at a fast pace. Energy is the key to achieve India’s development goals, to support a rapidly developing economy, to bring electricity to those who remain without it, and to develop the infrastructure to meet the needs of what is soon expected to be the world’s most populous country. India’s well-developed wind power industry has the capability and experience to help meet the country’s climate and energy security goals. Today India is the 4th largest wind market globally; with total installations having crossed the 32.7 GW mark in September 2017. The industry is firmly on its path on meeting the short-term national target of 60GW by 2022. This will need the local, regional and national Transmission System Operator (TSOs) to develop a long-term strategy for higher integration of variable renewable power generation including offshore wind.
Although costs of offshore wind projects are higher, there are clear indications that they can be brought down substantially through experience and economies of scale. The rewards in India have the potential to be great: a strong, steady resource that can play a major role in supplying clean energy to the major load centres in coastal cities and industrial areas. The growth of renewable energy in India has been driven by concerns over local air pollution, international climate commitments, need for energy security and the falling prices of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). From 2007 to 2016 grid-connected Renewable Energy Sources (RES) had a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 21.8%. However, offshore wind remains an important untapped resource that can make an important contribution to further de-carbonising India’s electricity. Offshore wind projects do not face the issues around land acquisition, typically deliver higher capacity factors compared to onshore wind are synergistic with solar PV generation.
Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Limited (GETCO) and Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) conducted power evacuation studies for integrating 500 MW of offshore wind in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu respectively by 2021-22. These study results indicate that the onshore grid infrastructure shall be adequate to evacuate offshore wind power most of the time. One of the concerns indicated in GETCO study is that offshore wind generation curtailment shall be necessary in off-peak conditions when the demand falls substantially. Under such circumstances, the power shall be exported outside the state via various inter-state transmission corridors. On the other hand, TANGEDCO study emphasises the requirement of timely onshore grid development to secure onshore grid connectivity and power evacuation for the proposed offshore wind generation. The MNRE has set ambitious targets for RES in India of 175 GW by 2022. At present this is expected to comprise solar PV, onshore wind, small hydro and biomass with no specific targets yet for offshore wind.
Aside from existing RES initiatives described and due to the early stage of the industry, offshore wind specific policies and code frameworks are not presently developed in India; namely:
To ensure that these would not become barriers to the scope of offshore wind energy development in India, guidance on the treatment of initial, pilot, offshore wind projects would be beneficial as well as a wider policy and code review in light of future industry growth scenarios. As of now, Offshore Wind in India (FOWIND) consortium has commissioned India's first offshore LiDAR. The LiDAR is located off the coast of India's western state of Gujarat, in the Gulf of Khambhat. It will provide data to help Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) examine the offshore wind potential in India along the country's coastline.The device has been procured from MeteoPole and installed on a platform developed by India's National Institute of Wind Energy. This is an important first step on the long road to establishing a vibrant and cost-effective offshore wind industry in India. It is still in early phase of development and the offshore market in India is expected to have a robust development only after 2022 when government will plan some targets for installations with respect to windy states like Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Kerala etc.
InfralineEnergy Disclaimer:
The views expressed here are solely those of the author in his private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the InfralineEnergy (Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.). The organization is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein and any direct/indirect consequences resulting therefrom.
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