Wind:
The grid based renewable energy industry in India has seen
four main technologies in action – Wind, Small Hydro,
biomass and bagasse based co-generation. Out of all three,
Wind has been the dominant source.
The wind power industry in India has grown rapidly over
the last decade on account of number of factors. The root
cause of the development can be traced to few key factors –
massive and sustained gaps between the electricity demand
and supply, relatively lower cost due to technology-maturity
and rapid development of domestic manufacturing industry.
The development was further aided by conducive policyenvironment.