India’s Wind Additions Could Reach 14 GW a Year by 2030

India’s wind additions could reach 14 gigawatts (GW) a year by 2030, Suzlon Energy Executive Vice Chairman Girish Tanti forecast Oct. 15, more than doubling the calendar 2025 pace.

Tanti also expects India to add 8 GW of wind capacity in 2026. His 14 GW figure is an industry forecast for annual additions, not a government target or a projection of total installed capacity.

India added 6.3 GW in calendar 2025. A separate tally for fiscal 2025–26 was 6.05 GW, a record for that fiscal year. The figures cover different reporting periods and are not conflicting counts of the same year.

India had 59.20 GW of total installed wind capacity as of Sept. 30, 2026. Its 2030 wind target is 100 GW of installed capacity. The country’s broader goal is 500 GW of installed non-fossil-fuel power capacity by 2030.

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has proposed storage requirements for new ground-mounted solar and onshore wind projects. Under the draft, projects commissioned after July 1, 2027, would need co-located storage equal to at least 10% of installed plant capacity for at least two hours.

The later tier would cover commissioning from July 2, 2029, through June 30, 2031, requiring four hours of storage while keeping storage capacity at 10% of plant capacity. The proposal connects to India’s planned battery-storage expansion.

The CEA’s public-comment deadline for the draft is Oct. 15.