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Jaisalmer Wind Park

Wind farm in Rajasthan, India

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History

The Jaisalmer Wind Park project was initiated in 2001. The wind park by developed by Suzlon Energy and comprises Suzlon's entire wind portfolio – ranging from the earliest 350 kW model to the latest S9X – 2.1 MW series. Its installed capacity is 1,064 MW, which makes it one of the world's largest operational onshore wind farms.

By April 2012, its combined installed capacity crossed 1000 MW i.e.,1 GW. At 1064 MW, the wind park became the largest of its kind in India, and one of the largest wind farms in the world.

In 2015, 24 wind turbine generator of 2.1 MW each were installed at Tejuva, taking the overall production to 50.4 MW.

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