Reassessing Wind Potential Estimates for India: Economic and Policy Implications

Phadke, Amol ; Bharvirkar, Ranjit ; Khangura, Jagmeet

关键词: on-shore wind;    India;    wind potential;    wind policy;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1051263
RP-ID  :  LBNL-5077E
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1051263

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

We assess developable on-shore wind potential in India at three different hub-heights and under two sensitivity scenarios ??? one with no farmland included, the other with all farmland included. Under the ???no farmland included??? case, the total wind potential in India ranges from 748 GW at 80m hub-height to 976 GW at 120m hub-height. Under the ???all farmland included??? case, the potential with a minimum capacity factor of 20 percent ranges from 984 GW to 1,549 GW. High quality wind energy sites, at 80m hub-height with a minimum capacity factor of 25 percent, have a potential between 253 GW (no farmland included) and 306 GW (all farmland included). Our estimates are more than 15 times the current official estimate of wind energy potential in India (estimated at 50m hub height) and are about one tenth of the official estimate of the wind energy potential in the US.