Wind in India are influenced by
the strong south-west summer monsoon, which starts
in May-June, when cool, humid air moves towards
the land and the weaker north-east winter monsoon,
which starts in October, when cool, dry sir moves
towards the ocean. During the period march to
August, the winds are uniformly strong over the
whole Indian Peninsula, except the eastern peninsular
coast. Wind speeds during the period November
to march are relatively weak, though higher winds
are available during a part of the period on the
Tamil Nadu coastline.
A notable feature of the Indian
programme has been the interest among private investors/developers
in setting up of commercial wind power projects.
The gross potential is 45,000 MW (source MNES) and
a total of about 1869 MW of commercial projects
have been established until March 2003. About 8.8
billion units of electricity have been fed to various
State grids from wind power projects.
