Foreign Firms Look to Make India Global Wind Turbine Export Hub
- Vestas, Senvion to expand manufacturing in India for export
- India offers competitive production costs, engineering: GWEC
An employee walks between two finished wind turbine blades in Bhuj, India.
Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg
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Global wind turbine makers are expanding manufacturing capacity in India to boost exports from the South Asian nation even as the country’s domestic industry faces headwinds.
India is well placed to be a manufacturing center for the wind industry and is emerging as an important part of the global supply chain, according to Ben Backwell, the chief executive of industry body Global Wind Energy Council. “Production cost in India is very competitive and engineering is very strong,” he said by phone. “They can beat anybody.”