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Sliding demand could derail wind power capacity addition plan [1]

India’s ambitious capacity addition programme in wind power generation could get derailed as a slackening demand in renewable electricity threatens to turn off investors.

Power distribution companies (discoms), which are supposed to anchor the demand for renewable power, are avoiding buying costly wind power because of their poor financial health. As a result, the wind power industry has been left in the doldrums.

Publication Date: 
22/01/2013
Noor Mohammad [2]
Financial Express (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
India [4], Wind Energy [5], Renewable Energy [6], National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) [7], Hydroelectricity [8], Energy [9]
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