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Wind Power News: India
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Wind power’s ecological costs on bats
As India’s renewable energy market diversifies, wind farms have emerged as an underexplored threat to bats. Globally, millions of bats die every year when they collide into wind turbines as they fly. Currently, bat species across the world face significant threats such as habitat loss from deforestation and agriculture, persecution, hunting, urbanisation, energy production, and climate change, according to a 2025 Fact Sheet by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species and Wild Animals (CMS). Yet conversations about biodiversity . . . Complete story »
Concern raised over proposed wind farm near Greater Flamingo Sanctuary in Dhanushkodi
A proposal to establish a 50-MW demonstration wind farm in Dhanushkodi in Rameswaram taluk has drawn concern from local residents and environmentalists over possible ecological impacts on the fragile coastal ecosystem and the nearby Greater Flamingo Sanctuary. The project, proposed by the National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, aims to set up four wind turbines with associated facilities and a jetty for logistics and research. The Dhanushkodi site, classified under Coastal Regulation . . . Complete story »
Bird deaths raise red flags as India expands wind energy
A study by the Wildlife Institute of India has estimated globally high bird mortality rates at wind farms in the Thar Desert. In the first half of 2025, India added around 3.5 GW to the wind sector – an 82% year-on-year growth – taking the total installed capacity to 51.3 GW. Even so, India’s wind power remains largely untapped. According to the National Institute of Wind Energy, India’s gross wind power potential is 1163.9 GW at 150 m above ground . . . Complete story »
Beed Dacoity gang booked under MCOCA for high-value wind turbine theft
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, May 31: In a significant move, Beed police have slapped the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) on a gang of dacoits behind a daring heist at a wind turbine site, where they looted equipment worth nearly Rs 13 lakh. The gang targeted Avada Company’s installation in Vida village, Kej taluka, on April 7. According to the site’s watchman, Akash Bhaskar Jadhav (26), the gang struck around 11:45 p.m., with 14 armed members descending on the . . . Complete story »
Price of wind energy: Gujarat villagers battle migraines, insomnia
About 20 kilometres from Jangi in Gujarat’s Kutch, Ambaben Ahir, a 56-year-old resident of Chandrodi village has been suffering from chronic headache and sleep disorders. Ahir was one of the many landowners of village who had sold their land to Suzlon Energy Limited, the wind turbine manufacturing giant in 2005 to make roads for the huge trucks carrying the blades to the company’s energy park. “We were told our land will be taken to build roads only and the turbines . . . Complete story »
Wind turbines in India’s Thar Desert stir controversy
In India’s Thar Desert, the wind turbines generating critical green energy for the country cast a shadow of discontent among local communities. Despite their role in India’s push to increase renewable energy and combat climate change, residents argue that these projects’ environmental and social costs are high. The Thar Desert, particularly in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district, hosts one of India’s largest onshore wind farms. The region’s wind turbines contribute significantly to India’s renewable energy capacity, with Rajasthan alone capable of providing . . . Complete story »
Nod for wind turbines near homes, school to be probed
The Gujarat high court on Friday directed the chairman of the Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA) to inquiry into the permission granted and installation of windmills within 500 metres of a primary school and dwelling units in a Bhavnagar village. A public interest litigation (PIL) has challenged the construction of wind turbines near a primary school and houses in a wind park developed by KP Energy Pvt Ltd in Sakhvadar, Khanderi, and Sartanpar villages of Talaja taluka in Bhavnagar. The . . . Complete story »
Man falls to death from wind mill structure in Theni
Saravanakumar, son of Marimuthu of VOC Street, Jayamangalam in Periyakulam in Theni district, died when he allegedly fell from a 15-feet high wind mill structure at a place in Kandamanur police station limits on Friday. Police said that he was working in the wind mill unit for the last year and had gone to carry out some repairs in one of the structures. When he reached the top along with some electrical materials and equipment, he suddenly slipped and fell . . . Complete story »
The dark side of wind energy along Gujarat’s coast
Manisha Patel still vividly remembers seeing students fall asleep in her classroom in 2011. When Patel woke them up, they would be irritable. A few were simply unable to focus on their studies. “Initially, I could not understand what was happening,” said Patel, a middle-aged, bespectacled woman who travels from a nearby village to teach science at a government primary girls school in Jangi, a windy village in Gujarat’s Kachchh district. Jangi is 10 km inland from the Gulf of . . . Complete story »
Central panel seeks report on violations by windmill firm in Karnataka’s Chitradurga
Over the last 5 years several studies have highlighted the threat posed by wind mills to bird population. Amid calls for better regulation of windmills, the Forest Advisory Committee of the Union environment ministry has asked the state government for details of violations in the operation of a windmill on 550 acres in Chitradurga district. The committee was looking into a proposal by the Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) which sought to extend the diversion of 548 acres of . . . Complete story »
