Asia Report: India's Wind Potential 30 Times Greater Than Believed? | Renewable Energy News Article

New Hampshire, U.S.A. -- A recent reassessment of the India wind energy market blows the lid off of previous capacity estimates.

The nation has been operating under analysis from the Center for Wind Energy Technology, which puts the nation’s onshore capacity at about 100 GW. But recent reassessments from China to Germany prompted independent researchers and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to dig a little deeper and look at the potential in light of new tools and new technology.
In a paper in the international renewable energy journal Renewable Energy, Indian wind energy expert Jami Hossain used the Geographical Information System Platform to raise the potential to 2,000 GW.  The LBNL subsequently moved that total even higher, pushing the potential to 3,000 GW. That’s 30 times the current estimate.