
India considers domestic content requirement for wind power generation
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi:Wind power projects may need to use a fixed amount of local components to secure government assistance, two people aware of the plans said, on the lines of a similar mandate for solar power projects. The government has begun talks with industry stakeholders to introduce a domestic content requirement (DCR), one of the two people cited above said on the condition of anonymity.
"The specific percentage of DCR and the components have not been finalized, but it should be high as indigenization of wind turbines and few other components is already strong, and several components are already manufactured here," the person added. According to the second person, the local content may be well above 30% of the components used in a project. As in many other sectors, the move aims to encourage local manufacturing and reduce dependence on China.
India's productivity-linked incentive plans have similar requirements too. The move comes as the Centre plans to support wind power components like turbines under the National Manufacturing Mission announced in the Union budget for FY26. Though wind turbines are locally made, many of their components come from China and Europe.
The government is now looking to build their supply chain and ecosystem within the country itself. Also read | Power capacity addition grows this fiscal led by new renewable projects Queries sent to the Union ministry of new and renewable energy remained unanswered. India, which had a wind capacity of 48.16 GW at the end of December 2024, aims to expand it to 140 GW by 2030, the year when it aims to achieve clean power capacity of 500 GW.
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