AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI, MAY 7:
Independent renewable energy producer ReNew Wind Power Pvt Ltd plans to invest around Rs 6,000 crore on development of 1,000 MW of wind power in the next couple of years in the country. It commissioned its first wind farm project of 25.2 megawatt (MW) at Jasdan in Rajkot district of Gujarat on Sunday.
“We are working on 15 projects aggregating 1,000 MW of wind power in States like Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra as well,” Mr Sumant Sinha, Founder Chairman and CEO, ReNew Wind Power, told Business Line on Monday.
Currently, the per megawatt cost of installation of wind power equipment is Rs 6 crore while per unit of electricity would cost, on an average, Rs 4.50 to the customer, which is far cheaper than solar energy at Rs 8 to Rs 9 an unit (kilowatt hour), he said.
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