Suzlon eyes Europe comeback with next-gen wind turbines
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Mumbai: Life is coming full circle for Suzlon Energy Ltd as the company looks to resume selling wind turbines in Europe, a market where it stopped sales nearly two decades ago as it worked its way out of a debt crisis.The Pune-based company on Tuesday launched two new turbine designs for the European market with capacities of 5 MW and 6.3 MW, based on its new Blue Sky product platform. These add to its portfolio of 2.1 MW and 3 MW machines.The new platform will debut in Europe and the company will take a call later this year on the specifications in which it can be brought to India, Girish Tanti, the executive vice-chairman of Suzlon, told Mint over a call from Madrid.
The Suzlon Group promoter is in Spain to attend Wind Europe's Annual Event 2026, where the new platform was launched.The new platform gives the company access to over 100 GW of market opportunity in Europe over five years, Tanti said. For context, the company sold 1.6 GW of turbines in the first nine months of FY26, and has an existing order book of 6.4 GW.
The key markets for the company in Europe are Germany, Spain, Romania, Italy, France, Poland and Portugal, in that order.“It's been a while since we have sold a new turbine in this market,” Tanti said.Suzlon has been present in Europe for over 25 years now. While it stopped selling new machines, it continued a research and development (R&D) and after sales service presence in the world’s foremost wind energy market after China.
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