MNRE notifies draft National Repowering Policy for Wind Power Projects, 2022

The MNRE has notified the draft National Repowering Policy for Wind Power Projects, 2022. The ministry had issued the policy for repowering of wind power projects on August 5, 2016 to create a facilitative framework for repowering. However, the majority of old wind power projects with sub-MW scale wind turbines are yet to be repowered. Therefore, a revised policy has been drafted, taking into account the feedback received from various stakeholders and subsequent deliberations. The objectives of the repowering policy are optimum utilisation of wind energy resource by maximising the energy yield per square km of the project area and utilising the latest state-of-the-art onshore wind turbine technologies.