With its falling cost and availability throughout the year, solar is emerging as a competitor to wind energy, a top Tamil Nadu government official said today.
In his address to the 3-day 4th International Wind Conference and Exhibition here, Rajesh Lakhoni, Principal Secretary, Energy, Government of Tamil Nadu said that considering this, energy intensive industries should look at wind-solar hybrid, so that they can hedge the cost over a period.
Reiterating the support of the Government to the wind energy sector, Lakhoni said that the generators should see how a synergy between wind and solar can be brought about as +that is the way to go+.
The power situation in the State was much better now nowy than the past year, he said adding that the Government's endeavour was to absorb as much wind energy as possible within the constraints.
Citing the examples of Germany and China in the management and absorbing capacity of wind, the official asked the sector to learn from them and work out ways of balancing and managing wind.
+The way forward is to push wind as a national resource and its management, at a national level and the Indian Wind Power Association (the organisors of the seminar) should work on this,+ he said.
The association should also approach the Centre on the need to have a uniform policy, since States were competing each other and incentivising wind promotion, which was not be a sustainable proposition, Lakhoni said.
