India added just 1.1 gigawatt of onshore wind power projects in 2020, the lowest in a decade, according to a new report by BloombergNEF, an international energy research organisation. The report titled India’s Top Wind Suppliers in 2020 attributed the slow growth to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The pandemic resulted in nation-wide lockdowns in 2020 and caused severe disruptions to the supply chain and movement of goods and people, delaying project execution, the report noted. India’s wind power capacity addition peaked in 2016-17, with about 5.5 GW of installations. Despite a target of 4 GW for 2017-18 and 2018-19 each, the installations were about 47 per cent and 37 per cent, respectively, of the target. The target for 2019-20 was reduced to 3 GW.
— source downtoearth.org.in | 24 Feb 2021