In the past few years, several significant changes have occurred in the Indian power industry, which have pushed us more towards ensuring adequacy, reliability and environment-friendliness of power supply. Today, our power sector has been increasingly focusing on renewable sources.
With supportive policies and renewable purchase obligations playing a crucial role in driving capacity additions, particularly in wind power, the segment is growing satisfactorily. Our wind energy capacity has witnessed a substantial growth with a 63% YoY increase in Q1 2025. We have successfully added 1.8 GW of wind capacity between January to March 2025. As of June 10, 2025, our total installed wind energy capacity is 50.00 GW, including both onshore and offshore wind capacities.
Some of the significant measures that our Government of India (GoI) has implemented include various policies and initiatives to encourage the development of wind power, (say) for example – bidding trajectories for Renewable Energy Implementing Agencies (REIAs), waiving Inter-State Transmission System (ISTS) charges, and allowing 100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) under the automatic route.
Although today a significant portion of our total wind energy capacity is based on onshore plants, GoI is showing adequate interest in increasing our offshore wind power capacity too. Considering our huge potential for offshore wind energy, it has set a target of harnessing 140 GW from offshore by 2050.
Mere power generation is not enough, that needs to be evacuated too. Considering that the GoI has planned to develop a 10 GW offshore wind energy evacuation capacity – 5 GW each in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has published a roadmap for this, including transmission infrastructure and plans for two phases of construction.
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