CLP India signs Wind Power Project in Rajasthan [May 2012]

CLP India announced that it has signed a 102.4 MW wind power project called “Bhakrani” in Rajasthan. The wind farm will be using Enercon’s 800 kW Gearless E53 turbine designed for medium to low wind speed sites. This technology is already used by CLP India in its earlier projects constructed by Enercon. The project is expected to be fully commissioned by December 2012. This project marks CLP India’s third wind power project in the state and ninth wind project in India.
Rajiv Mishra, Managing Director, CLP India said, “CLP’s focus on wind is guided by its ‘Climate Vision 2050’, which has laid out it’s carbon-dioxide emissions intensity reduction targets to the year 2050”.
Mahesh Makhija, Director – Renewables Business Development, CLP India said, “Only four months into 2012 and this is the second wind farm project that we have singed in Rajasthan. The coupled capacity of the projects is over 200 MW. If we continue growing at this rate we should achieve a generation capacity of around 2,000MW over the next five years”.

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