Wind Repowering in India

25 GW of India's wind fleet is ageing. That's not a problem — it's the opportunity.

At Windergy India 2026 in Chennai last week, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said the government is preparing a strategy to repower roughly 25 GW of ageing wind capacity, as India pushes from ~59 GW today toward 100 GW by 2030. Read more at: https://lnkd.in/gntKfMia

Many of the country's best wind sites still run first-generation turbines: sub-MW machines, low hub heights, outdated controls. Swap them for modern turbines and the same land, the same wind resource and the same grid connection can deliver several times the energy.
In Gujarat, we're working through this on the ground with funding from the Asian Development Bank. With GEDA, we're developing a repowering pilot at Lamba, one of India's earliest wind farms, configured as a hybrid with Firm and Dispatchable Renewable Energy (FDRE) project. It's set to be among the first of its kind in India, and it's surfacing the practical issues any other similar projects will need to solve:
🔹 Post-PPA tariffs — for projects above 10 MW, there's no automatic tariff once the original PPA ends; competitive procurement or open-access routes have to fill the gap
 🔹 Firm power — repowering is the moment to add solar and storage on existing land and evacuation infrastructure, turning variable wind into dispatchable supply
 🔹 Land and site realities — decades of changing land use around old wind farms need careful assessment in addition to new designations related to forest and environmental safeguards
 🔹 Financing structure — who owns the repowered asset shapes everything downstream
Gujarat's Integrated RE Policy 2025 and MNRE's Repowering Policy 2023 give a starting framework. Pilots like Lamba will show what works in practice and what needs fixing before scaling to 25 GW.
The wind is still there. The question is how fast we put it to better use.