National Offshore Wind Energy Policy, 2015

Overview of the National Offshore Wind Energy Policy, 2015 as approved by the Union Cabinet to facilitate offshore wind farming in the territorial waters of India

Wind energy is widely recognized as being one of the most efficient and cost-effective sources of energy among renewable energy technologies. Development of renewable energy sources is one of the key goals of the Government of India (GOI) under the National Action Plan for Climate Change of 2008. Offshore wind energy is yet to be deployed on a sizeable scale in large parts of the world and has largely been unutilized other than in some of the developed countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany.

In order to make offshore wind energy at par with conventional sources of energy in India, policy regimes of the GOI supporting and incentivizing its development are essential. On September 9, 2015 the Union Cabinet gave its approval for the National Offshore Wind Energy Policy, 2015 (Policy) with the intent