Suzlon installs India’s tallest wind turbine in Karnataka’s Vijayanagar district

Suzlon Energy, a Pune-based wind turbine manufacturer, on Monday (June 15) said it installed the S175 (5 MW), claimed to be India’s tallest wind turbine powerhouse, with a height of 160 m, in Vijayanagar district, Karnataka.

According to a company communique, as India’s most powerful turbine yet, the S175 has been engineered on over 30 years of operational insights from Suzlon’s existing 15.5 GW turbine fleet. As the country’s first FDRE-ready (Firm and Dispatchable Renewable Energy) turbine, it unlocks new wind frontiers and will enable wind energy to play a larger role in India’s energy transition.

Pralhad Joshi, Union Cabinet Minister for New and Renewable Energy, said, “The launch of the S175 5 MW turbine will go a long way in ensuring that we meet our wind energy ambitions, both domestically and globally. This next-generation turbine reflects India’s growing strength in advanced clean energy innovation.”

“Its biggest breakthrough lies not just in significantly increasing energy generation but in its ability to make previously unviable wind sites viable, expanding the wind addressable markets,’’ said Girish Tanti, executive vice-chairman, Suzlon Group.

The integration of proven reliability and next-generation turbine technology would help it deliver higher energy generation and improved project economics for low to medium India wind regimes, said the company.