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more-inThe last five years marked an extremely lean phase in wind power capacity addition – a little over 1,000 megawatt (MW) – for Tamil Nadu. The State’s story of solar power looked very good till March 2017 as more than 1,500 MW was added through solar power in the two years ending then. The facilities for power transmission are being upgraded annually, the officials say, recalling how about 5,000 MW of wind power was evacuated in July last year. At the beginning of the current financial year (2018-19), the figures of installed capacity for wind and solar power were 8,152 MW and 2,046 MW respectively. K.
Kasthurirangaiyan, a veteran wind power developer, is quite bitter about the order..