Although India has over 7000 kilometers of coastline, there has been no offshore wind power in the energy-hungry country so far. This is now set to change - and as quickly as possible, according to a surprise announcement by the Indian government.
India's government had originally announced a national offshore wind energy policy back in 2015, saying that 30 gigawatts of wind power capacity would be leased by 2030. And the World Bank had made an even higher forecast in 2017: Up to 174 gigawatts would be possible if floating wind farms were built alongside bottom-fixed turbines, it said at the launch of the Global Wind Atlas, a free web-based tool designed to help policymakers and investors find ...