Wind Farm In India..!!

Rural India exploits renewable energy.

    We face an energy crisis, since gas and oil resources are diminishing this century. Apart from coal (for producing electricity) and nuclear energy, there aren't reasonable alternatives which can be utilized at this large scale and at the same costs. But both coal and nuclear power have their drawbacks.

    More over, these sources have gone up in terms of price too and that is the reason renewable energy is the solution left to be exploited now.

    Utilizing sun energy, wind, tidal, geothermic and bio energy, which in principle are renewable.
The only problem is that they aren't available in the scale and concentration in which it is needed and/or are much more expensive.


    However, the costs for producing electricity is rising and might even rise more when we near peakoil scenario. When wind and/or sun energy are produced at much larger scales, it becomes economically feasible, even when the energy has to be transported far away.

    In this blog, I would discuss about the wind farm that i visited recently.

•     Assessed wind power potential in the country is about 49130 MW, while in Maharashtra it is 5439 MW. 

•     Sites with Annual Mean Wind Density above 200 watt/sq. m are considered suitable for wind power projects. 339 such sites have been identified in the country, of which 40 sites are in Maharashtra.

•    To harness the wind power available, these wind mills are erected on western ghats of Maharashtra state

    Earlier the wind mills that were erected were not designed to produce high generation rates of electric energy on the same mountain region. Each unit had its small distribution transformer just below the tower of that unit as much power was not generated. But this is not the case with the latest installed units, they have their entire power house for single unit.