Construction of Offshore Wind Energy Project throughout 7600 Km Coastline in India

Present Initiatives

NTPC Ltd, largest Central Sector Power Utility of India and upstream oil major ONGC Ltd have planned to boost the development of offshore wind energy in India, which is blessed with a coastline of about 7,600 km surrounded by water on three sides and has good prospects of harnessing this clean source. In May last year, both the central PSEs NTPC Ltd and ONGC Ltd had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to accelerate their presence in the renewable energy space. According to the MoU signed, NTPC and ONGC will explore setting up of offshore wind and other renewable energy projects not only in India but also in overseas. The MOU also provided that both the Organisations together shall also explore opportunities in the fields of sustainability, storage, E-mobility and ESG compliant projects.

 
NTPC Eager to Go Green

Over the last two years, the Central power generator has been making serious efforts to stage a transition from thermal to renewable energy, especially through solar power. Being a government-controlled entity, this change in focus at NTPC is largely driven by the Centre’s directives. Earlier NTPC had a plan to achieve 32,000MW of renewable-power generation capacity, which will amount to a fourth of its overall power portfolio, by the beginning of the next decade. This MOU is significant in view of, almost doubling the target of renewable energy capacity addition to 60GW by 2032 by NTPC last month. 


Upcoming Opportunities

This initiative of offshore wind energy development in the country will fetch huge benefits to Power and Other Industries in India as offshore Wind turbines are more energy efficient than the onshore wind turbines. Keeping in view the 7,600 km long coastline and the expertise of ONGC in civil construction and mechanical erection of offshore facilities & their operations, this association can bring a sea change in this segment of clean energy. As offshore wind turbines are much larger in size (in range of 5 to 10 MW power generation capacity per turbine) as against 2-3 MW of power generation capacity per MW in an onshore wind turbine. Also civil construction of offshore turbines are higher because of stronger structures and foundations needed in marine environments. These coastal wind power projects will open up opportunities for many small contractors in civil construction, mechanical erection and electrical erection and construction from all over India. 

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