At a time when green energy sources are getting a lot of importance from power producers in the country, wind farms are Turning out to be big suppliers of energy to Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.
Wind farms in Tamil Nadu added 431 Mw of power to Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) in 2008-09 as compared to 381 MW in 2007-08. A total of 6,655 million units were generated from wind and were fed to the grid during 2008-09.
Speaking at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s Green Power 2008, an international conference and exposition on renewable energy, inagurated in Chennai today Christodas Gandhi, chairman and managing director, Tamil Nadu Electricity Development Agency said that the total installed capacity of power generated from renewal energy sources, small hydro power in Tamil Nadu was 4,813 Mw as on April 30, 2009.
This includes energy from wind at 4,311 Mw and cogneration and bomass power at 413 Mw, which accounts for 35 per cent of the installed capacity from renewable energy source in India. This alone represents 27 per cent of TNEB’s grid capacity against 9 per cent for the country as a whole. Electricity generation from renwable enegy sources in the state was 7,532 million units in 2007-08 which was about 11 per cent of the grid consumption.
He added that the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission had recently fixed the tariff for purchasing renewable energy by TNEB. For instance, the existing tariff for wind power rose to Rs 3.30 per unit from Rs 2.90 per unit, biomass power to Rs 4.50 per unit from Rs 3.15 per unit, cogeneration bagasse-based to Rs 4.38 per unit from Rs 3.15 per unit and solar power it would be Rs 3.15 per unit, under the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy’s incentive scheme.
Meanwhile TEDA has taken up R&D projects, jointly with Anna University, including development of Solar Cooker based on Thermal Storage System for cooking during the nightôearly morning, design and development of energy efficient building using solar passive architecture and design and develoment of bagasse drying unit using waste heat.
You say "Wind farms in Tamil Nadu added 431 Mw of power to Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) in 2008-09". And then you say, in the next para, "This includes energy from wind at 4,311 Mw"
I presume that the rest (4311-431) goes to power individual plants and facilities and only 431 gets into the grid?
And by the way, MW is power, and it usually denotes a capacity. When we are talking of energy supplied, it should be in MWh (power multiplied by time)...
NS @ Energy Alternatives India - http://www.eai.in
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