{"id":34872,"date":"2018-10-31T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34872"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:45:21","slug":"the-way-the-wind-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-way-the-wind-blows\/","title":{"rendered":"The way the wind blows:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/the-way-the-wind-blows\/article19765888.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way the wind blows<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New developments in wind energy sector in India, particularly in Tamil Nadu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Wind energy in Tamil Nadu<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TN has historically struggled to evacuate the huge amount of power generated by its wind farms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This happened because of its inability to predict wind-power generation in advance and contract coal power generation accordingly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, TN has taken the lead in using good forecasting techniques since 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has resulted in a steady rise in the amount of wind energy being evacuated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Two conflicting developments<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>A milestone<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the wind energy sector in TN. On July 11, the state evacuated more than 5000 MW of wind power, replacing almost 1000 MW of thermal energy. On this day, wind energy accounted for almost a third of the state\u2019s electricity demand.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><b>Bleak market sentiment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This year, India decided to go for auctions to discover energy tariffs, rather than feed-in tariffs fixed by regulatory commissions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has resulted in record low prices of wind energy in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many states are now refusing to sign Power Purchase Agreements at feed-in tariffs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Energy companies feel the low prices will cut into their profits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auction by Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission has resulted in even lower wind energy prices in the state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other problems like arbitrary curtailment of wind power and backlogs in payment further erodes their faith in participating in the auctions at low margins.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Future prospects and way forward<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TN is expected to fully realise its renewable energy potential once the Raigarh-Pugalur green power transmission corridor is completed by 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the context of the two conflicting developments mentioned above, TN has a unique opportunity at hand. It has successfully showcased the benefits of better planning and forecasting in integrating wind energy in its energy mix. It has the largest wind capacities in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The transitions may not be smooth, but, TN and other states need to ensure the balance for regulatory clarity and market stability and investor confidence. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most importantly TN must continue to build on its planning process for the sector.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way the wind blows:\u00a0 Context New developments in wind energy sector in India, particularly in Tamil Nadu Wind energy in Tamil Nadu TN has historically struggled to evacuate the huge amount of power generated by its wind farms. This happened because of its inability to predict wind-power generation in advance and contract coal power&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-way-the-wind-blows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The way the wind blows:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816560},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}