A Scheme For Wind Power Projects Similar To National Solar Mission

The Government of India has introduced a scheme for setting up 1000 MW capacity of wind power projects to be connected to the Central Transmission Utility

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) of the Government of India has released the 'Scheme for setting up of 1000 Mega – Watts (MW) of Central Transmission Utility (CTU) – connected wind power projects' (the Scheme) dated June 14, 2016. The National Tariff Policy, 2016 (NTP) has in order to incentivise the harvesting of wind energy in general to other states and keeping in mind the findings of such studies, has waived the imposition of inter – state transmission charges on transmission of wind energy. In this regard, the Scheme has been introduced with the objectives to facilitate the supply of wind energy to other states at a price discovered through transparent competitive bidding process, encourage competition and facilitate the performance of the non – solar Renewable Purchase