Record wind installations expected this year, says MNRE minister

The Indian wind industry is on course to setting up 6 GW of capacity in 2025-26, a record. In 2024-25, India saw wind installations of 4,151 MW, the second highest then, after 5,200 MW in 2016-17. India today has 54 GW of wind installed capacity. Addressing a press conference, on the sidelines of Windergy 2025 conference in Chennai, the Union Minister for Renewable Energy, Prahlad Joshi, said that India has set up 3GW of capacity in the first half of the current financial year. The minister said that the government was keen on raising the local content of India-made turbines--from 74 per cent now to 84 per cent by 2030. This would reduce the cost of a tirby by 25 percent, he said. Santosh Kumar Sarangi, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, said at the press conference that the govt has just brought in a new standard operating procedure for approving wind turbines for sales in India. The new ALMM rules, just announced, will deal with the manner in which the machines would be produced in India. Answering a question, Sarangi said that the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is in talks with the ministry of power to ensure that the wind industry’s transition into a regime of tight scheduling and forecasting is made easy. Earlier, the minister inaugurated Senvion India’s 4.2 MW wind turbine, designed and produced in India with 85 per cent local content. Senvion is owned by the Saudi Arabian company, Alfanar (via its investment vehicle Global Renewable Energy Development Holding Company Ltd. — GREDHCL), and has sold 1.5 GW worth wind turbines in India. Published on October 30, 2025