India in the third week of December 2016 was ranked 4
th in the Global Wind Power Installed Capacity Index.
The cumulative installed wind power generation capacity of India is 25088 MW.
The Index was led by China, followed by USA and Germany. The cumulative installed wind power generation capacity of China is 145362 MW.
The cumulative installed wind power generation capacity of the USA is 74471 MW and that of Germany is 44947 MW.
The ranking were launched on 19 December 2016 in the Global Wind Report: Annual Market update, which was launched by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
A capacity addition of 14.30 GW of renewable energy was also reported during the last 2.5 years in India under Grid Connected Renewable Power, which include 5.8 GW from Solar Power, 7.04 GW from Wind Power, 0.53 from Small Hydro Power and 0.93 from Bio-power.
India and its wind power capacity- In 2015-2016, India installed 31472 solar pumps.
- In Oct 2016, 92305 solar pumps have been installed in the country.
- During 2016-2017, 51 MW installations of biomass power plants were achieved against a target of 400 MW.
- During 2016-2017, against a target of 1.00 lakh biogas plants, 0.26 lakh biogas plant installations have been achieved.
- This was making a cumulative achievement to 4.94 million biogas plants as of 31 October 2016.
