MUMBAI – The government will offer 3.8 billion rupees ($81 million) in incentives to wind power projects that feed into the national grid, a move analysts believe will attract large companies.
The country ranked fourth in the world after Germany, Spain and the United States in grid-connected wind projects, with 9,587 megawatt (MW) of capacity in November 2008 that fed over 54 billion units of electricity to the grid, official data showed.
Wind power projects will be given 0.5 rupee for each unit of power fed into the grid with a ceiling of 6.2 million rupees per MW for a minimum 4 years and maximum 10 years, the ministry of new and renewable energy said in a statement on its website.
The subsidy will be for projects of up to 4,000 MW until 2012, it said.
This looks better than an existing tax benefit scheme because it provides direct cash benefits to the developers, Bhargav Buddhadev, analyst at Noble group, said.
"It will now attract genuine utility size players to enter into wind farm development," he said.
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