The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of India has unveiled draft guidelines for the development of onshore wind projects, seeking comments from stakeholders by 27 May 2016. The guidelines aim to provide an inciting regulatory framework for wind projects, to facilitate the development of wind projects in an efficient, cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way.
The guidelines update wind turbine certifications, making "quality certification of turbines by an internationally recognized certification body" a mandatory requirement but removing the need for certification by the National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) alone, which should ease project development by international companies. In addition, the guidelines set a distance between two turbines to "three times the diameter of the rotor".
In late March 2016 (end of fiscal year 2015-2016), installed wind capacity in India reached 26.8 GW. The government aims to reach 60 GW of installed wind power capacity by 2022.
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