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Wind energy: missed targets.

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The National Energy Security Plan 2005-2030 has set target for the development of renewable energy, with focus on exploiting wind-power resources, to achieve, from practically non-existent share, to live percent share in national powe generation mix by the year 2025. Given the present conditions, however, it seems almost impossible to reach the mark.

Anticipating completion of the pioneering 150-MW wind-power project and other renewable energy on-going schemes of 30 M\V capacity by 2005, the Plan envisaged establishing renewable/wind energy projects, progressively adding 700 MW to the national grid by 2010.

In subsequent years, another 800 MW installed capacity is to be created to attain a total of 1,680 MW installed capacity for power generation through alternative energy resources by 2015. By the end of 2025, if is planned to have 5.550 MW cumulative renewable/wind energy capacity, while total power generation capacity at national grid is projected at 110,760 MW.

The ground reality, however, is that the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) has not yet been able to develop a single project worth mentioning, either wind-power or of solar-energy. Tall claims repeatedly made by...

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