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 A Bi-monthly Magazine of Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association
Volume: 3 Issue: 1 April - May 2017

Executive Committee

Chairman
Contents Page No.
Mr. Sarvesh Kumar
President and Chief Operating Officer Windergy - International Conference and Exhibition - Programme 3
RRB Energy Limited, New Delhi
Strong Year Ahead for Global Wind 4
Steve Sawyer, Secretary General, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), Brussels, Belgium

Vice Chairman & Honorary Secretary Technology to Drive the Future of Wind Industry 7
Tulsi Tanti, Chairman and Managing Director, Suzlon Group
Mr. Chintan Shah
President and Head (SBD) Positioning Wind Energy for the Future Regulatory Issues 8
Suzlon Energy Limited, Pune Ajit Pandit, Krishnajith M U, Idam Infrastructure Advisory Pvt. Ltd.

India has a 10-Year Window in which No New Investments 14

likely in Coal, Gas or Nuclear Capacities
Executive Committee Members
Press Release from ETC, TERI and INAE

Mr. Madhusudan Khemka Positioning Wind Energy for the Future 15

Managing Director Prof. Dr. K Kasthurirangaian, Chairman, Indian Wind Power Association
ReGen Powertech Pvt. Ltd., Chennai
Positioning Wind Energy for the Future by Wind-Solar Hybrids 16
Mr. Ramesh Kymal Archit Khemka, Executive Director, ReGen Powertech Private limited

Chairman & Managing Director A Macro View on Wind Turbine Logistics in India 22
Gamesa Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Chennai K.P. Chandrasekar, President & CEO, M/s. Surface Transport Carriers of India, Chennai

Mr. Ajay Mehra NAWIND Joins Hands with IWTMA for Wind Power Development 26
Director, Wind World India Limited, Mumbai Inaki Soto, Managing Director, Navarra Wind Supply Association, Navarra, Spain

Mr. Hemkant Limaye Forecasting and Scheduling - A definite Way for Positioning 30
Commercial Director Wind Energy for the Future
LM Wind Power, Bengaluru Vishal Pandya, Co-founder & Director, REConnect Energy
Varteka Tripathi, Manager (Regulatory & Analytics), REConnect Energy

India - Installed Wind Power Capacity - Yearwise and Cumulative 37

Secretary General
Snippets on Wind Power 38
Mr. D.V. Giri, IWTMA, Chennai
India - State-wise Month-wise Wind Power Capacity Installations 2016-17 (MW) 40

Associate Director and Editor

Dr. Rishi Muni Dwivedi, IWTMA, Chennai

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A Macro View on Wind Turbine Logistics in India

K.P. Chandrasekar, President & CEO, M/s. Surface Transport Carriers of India, Chennai
Mobile: 97909 84559 E-mail: [email protected]

Transportation of massive abnormal structures and weights type of deployed trailers, prime movers, skills of drivers and
of multi megawatt wind turbine components in windy places the standards of escort team are all changed with the changing
located in remote and narrow villages, hills with many bends requirements, but, certain pricking issues and the stumbling
and dangerous hairpins throughout the year on all seasons are block of free movements still remains the same. These problems
challenge that every wind turbine manufacturers must be treaded are getting worse and worse with every passing day. On an
off. Especially in a vast country like India, where diverse regions average wind turbine over dimensional cargo component has
and culture with limited infrastructures availability, challenges to travel minimum distance of 500 kilometres and a maximum
of transporting project cargo are simply overwhelming and the distance of 2500 Kilometres to deliver them to wind farm sites
available options are limited. from origin to destination.

India has surrounded on three sides by oceans, endowed with The outsourced transport vendors are facing flak on every
many rivers, canals and has plenty of major and minor sea movement, while carrying the oversized wind components
ports. Indian hinterlands are well connected with rail, road and from the RTO, highway police, check posts, delay at tolls,
air networks. These facilities and infrastructures are really worlds harassments by local thugs, villagers, etc. India has federal
standard and facilitates the transportation of small and general Governments structure i.e. Central Government and many
cargos with utmost ease, throughout the year day and night on State Governments. The Central Government can enact
all seasons. Wind industrys oversized and overweight abnormal and amend the existing Motor Vehicles Act and can provide
cargos transportation on rail, air and sea is so far not cost direction and guidelines to the many State Governments but
effective and consume more transit days, faces cumbersome every State Governments is having their own Motor Vehicles
procedures, complex printed documents and also multiply Act to protect their State interests, seize overloaded vehicles
material handling. Wind industry requires cost optimised, and goods, levy penalty and collect revenue thereon. When an
stable and robust logistics system to continually transport oversized component transported through various states from
these oversized and overweight components like tubular tower the origin to consumption point, the carrier of the component
shells, lengthier rotor blades, generator assemblies and nacelle has to go through different state government Act, procedures,
assemblies to remotest wind farms located in sea, desert, check posts, RTO, highway police, tolls, etc. This is the grey
valley, hills, rural areas, etc. area where the cost of road transportation shoots up beyond
Multi-modal transportation is a way forward for wind turbine the simple calculation of vehicles purchase cost, diesel
components futuristic transportation plans. But, at the present consumption, manpower cost, capacity utilization, establishment
juncture road transportation is the only cost effective, stable, cost, insurance, permit, maintenance, road tax, toll, interest,
robust, dependable and end to end logistics option available depreciation, etc.
for oversized wind components delivery to wind farms located Wind turbines components vary in size and weight are changing
in across India. fast due to the requirements of higher megawatt machines
in India. In turn the requirements of wind components
Wind turbine manufacturers are in general having logistics
departments and logistics experts on their roll; through them transportation vehicles are also changing. The transport vendors
wind turbine companies outsource their complete or major due to the wind industrys ever changing requirements are
vehicles requirements from the small and exclusive transport forced to upgrade their vehicles or phase out their existing
vendors, presently serving the wind energy sector in India. fleets, so as to exist in the wind industry. This requires massive
investment from the transport vendors and there exist fear
Transportation of wind turbine oversized components though and drastic reduction of shelf life of vehicles with regard to
increased in size and volume year on year have been primarily transportation of wind components. This phenomenon shoots
being done through road transportation. Over the years, the up the freight cost of wind components.

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Wind companies are in constant search to reduce or optimise truckers at the point of material delivery or at the maximum can
wind turbine components delivery time and cost to the wind avail short credit period.
farm sites, so as to be competitive in the market. There are
various visible and invisible factors influencing the logistics Cost Components of Freight Rates for Oversized
cost and the time to deliver. Wind companies manufacturing and Overweight Components
facilities are spread across India and their ever increasing Wind turbine major logistics cost goes into transportation of
abnormal, oversized rotor blade length has gone beyond 60 ODC and OWC components. Dissection on freight rate cost
meters. Overweight nacelles, generator assemblies, tower components would highlight an invincible and invisible major
bottom sections have gone beyond the 100 Metric ton unitised cost component i.e. expenses towards RTO, police, locals, thugs,
weights. The size and weight of this nature would pose big etc., in connection with the transportation of ODC and OWC
challenges even in developed nations around the world. An components from the origin to delivery. These expenses would
aspiring country like India must have lion heart to stave off normally occupy around 30% of the freight rates. If all the wind
multiple challenges to live and work with traditional mindset turbine components transporters approach these expenses in
of Government officers, archive and redundant laws, handling unison the expenses towards this can be reduced reasonably.
multiple documentation in every passing state, acceptance of Alternatively, the logistics experts engaged by the wind turbine
regular delays at RTOs, police, toll, villages, coping with lack of companies can directly get in touch with these expenses and
motorable roads, narrow and sharp T turnings, vertical and direct contact with RTOs that would reduce the expenses
horizontal obstacles on national highways and the long distance drastically from the present level. This unconventional approach
to travel, the disturbance by the locals, petty politicians, thugs, also would reduce the logistics cost towards transportation of
drunken drivers, encroachments in the middle, edges and wind turbines to the wind farms.
turning of road. The wind companies to upscale these massive
logistics challenges simply outsource their transport services Hire Specialised Vehicles from the Outsourced
through the specialised transport vendors. Contractors
The logistics specialists in every organisation, if, properly At the present juncture, wind companies engage the hired
understands these influencing visible and invisible factors, vehicle to deliver a component to their wind farm but end up of
they can surely optimise their overall logistics cost and to paying for both ways. If wind companies collaborate themselves
reduce time to deliver oversized wind components at various and align their planning, they can get the reduced freight rates
wind farms located across the nation in all regions and on all by engaging one way to one company and to return load from
seasons. The world knows that wherever the wind blows, there another company. This way, the transporters would get round
surely the economic prosperity follows. This dictum is known trip and the benefited transporters would pass on the benefits
to all the stakeholders in wind industry. Here, we suggest few to the wind companies. This way all would get shared benefits
unconventional approaches and innovative ideas to optimise and expenses towards transportation would drastically come
the logistics cost and the transit time. down.

Rationale behind not entering Annual Transport Multiple Small Transport Vendors
Contract
Wind industry needs multiple small transport vendors over
Most of the wind companies in a hurry to budget their annualised the few major transport vendors to transport ODC and OWC
logistics cost in the beginning of financial year is going for components for better cost and delivery time optimisation.
annual transport contract for small and generalised cargo,
The choice of having multiple small transport vendors are
which is quite a volume for all the wind turbine manufacturers.
great advantage for wind industry to receive best personalised
Here lies an opportunity to hire truck market vehicles on spot
services, communications, flexibility and the great prices. The
freight rates. In India, the generalised cargo carrying vehicles
development of major transporters and encouragement of few
are available in plenty throughout the year in all locations with
transport vendors monopolise the services and would kill the
minimum of 25% to 35% less than the annualised transport
competition and encourage muscle flexing and also shoots up
contract freight rates. All that wind companies should do
the freight rates and doing great disservice to the wind industry.
is to engage a person with hands on experience in trucking
It is proven fact that encouraging multiple transport vendors
companys traffic department and have a direct contact with
would bring innovation in service and great price advantage.
brokers and enrol memberships in online truck hire websites. A
massive freight rate reduction and efficient delivery system can
Arranging Finance through Banks
be created through these arrangements for small and general
cargo transportation. Only grey area of this unconventional Wind Industry on their own or through their association
method is that wind companies must be prepared to pay the can influence the banks to fund the upcoming transport

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entrepreneurs to purchase the specialised trailers, so as to get Conclusion
best freight rates and exclusive and assured services.
Wind Industry can take many unconventional steps, as cited
above to reduce the logistics cost and to compress transit
Wind industry can purchase the specialised trailers days to deliver the material at the required destinations. Wind
and outsource the Freight Management to get turbine manufacturers can also join hands with transporters
extremely low freight rates, depreciation benefits to impress and influence the government both at Centre and
and assured Transport Services. at State Governments about the importance of ensuring the
free flow of wind turbine components movements across the
Wind industry can implement another innovative idea of nation with less human intervention and accord priority in wind
purchasing the specialised trailers and to outsource Freight turbine components clearance from check posts, RTOs across
Management from the specialists, so as to get assured transport the nation, so as to have a faster wind machines delivery across
services throughout year, best freight rates and depreciation India.
benefits.

Payment to the Transport Vendors

Wind industry can pay the transport vendors based on the
transaction or at percentage on overall invoice or receipts. This
is another way of optimising logistics cost and also to make
the vendors as partners in progress by allowing the vendors
Theme of the Next Issue
to plan for vehicles and to work in the truck market to obtain The theme of the next issue of
best freight rates and ensure the availability of required vehicles Indian Wind Power is "Major Findings of
at all times and channelize the efforts to concentrate on core Windergy India 2017 Conference"
activity of manufacturing of wind components, erect and We invite relevant articles to the theme. We solicit your cooperation.
commissioning the wind turbines. Editor

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