Lok Sabha Debates
Need To Promote And Explore Use Of Wind Energy In Tamil Nadu To Address The Problem ... on 20 March, 2012
> Title: Need to promote and explore use of wind energy in Tamil Nadu to address the problem of shortage of power in the State.
SHRI MANICKA TAGORE (VIRUDHUNAGAR): In the modern world, electricity is playing a vital role in day to day life. The human beings cannot live without electricity. So the consumption of electricity is increasing day by day and we cannot meet the requirement of electricity without the production of wind energy in the country. In Tamil Nadu, the power cut and power shortage are frequent due to the failures of planned and proper management of the State Government to increase the power supply in the State.
India is the world’s fifth largest wind power producer in the world and Tamil Nadu has the most wind generating capacity among the States. There are number of wind mill companies started from 2009 in various places of Tamil Nadu. I want to know from the Union Government that even though Tamil Nadu is producing more wind power among the States, the State is still facing lot of power crisis. The Union Government may find out that how much wind energy is being produced in Tamil Nadu, how many wind mills are lying idle without producing any wind power or is there any transmission problems in the State.
I urge upon the Union Government to take necessary action to increase the wind energy through commissioning of the idle wind mills and proper transmission of the produced wind energy to solve the power crisis in the State of Tamil Nadu.