What are the focus issues and non-issues for wind power generation?
There are many issues that directly affect the progress on planning wind farms in India. One of them is availability of land. India being an agricultural oriented country, most of the land is in private hands which is not freely available. On the other hand, the government land is mostly in the form of reserve forests and is again unavailable. Whatever small quantity of land was available, has been booked by big WEG manufacturers and is available on premium along with their machines. Other major issues are size of WEG, plant load factor, generation guarantee, O&M cost over the lifecycle of machines, grid availability, financial incentives, disposal of wind farm, etc. The factors that are non-issue in today’s scenario of wind power generation in India, surprisingly are: individual machine capacity, equipment specification and technology: tower type, its height or its foundation, availability, efficiency or loading of wind generators, location/distance from utility centre; micro-sitting
