FOWIND Pipavav demonstration
Status
Proposedlifecycle stage
Ownership
GWEC/FOWIND consortium (EU-funded) — 100% ◇
Location
IndiaArabian Sea
Technology
Capacity
1,000 MW ◇
Turbines
—
Foundation
—
Site & conditions
Site rights
Not established we have not found a document granting or refusing rights over this seabed — a gap in our research, not a finding about the project ∅
Water depth
5–18 m ≈
Wind speed
6.6 m/s @ 150 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
—
Grid
—
Schedule
FID
Not taken
COD · developer
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Delivery outlook not forecast
We don't put a delivery estimate on this project yet. No authority has granted rights to this site, so there is nothing to date a schedule from. That changes the moment the seabed is awarded, a consent application is filed, or the project is named in an auction.
Revenue & offtake route to market — open
No offtake secured — route to market open
The routes describe what exists in this market — not a prediction of which the project will take.
Next visible round · from the auction calendar
India first VGF offshore wind tender (Gujarat / Tamil Nadu) ◇
VGF scheme notified Sep 2024; a 500 MW Gujarat site (NIWE-identified) tender announced Sep 2024; TN 500 MW site being finalised; a separate SECI 4 GW Tamil Nadu seabed-lease-rights tender floated Feb 2024.
Installation how the build is going · from satellite counts and Hafrok’s registers
Installation not started
nothing to count yet: the satellite tracker begins when offshore construction does
Installation · on record
StageProposed
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operationnot stated
Sources & verification
0/9 fields verified · rests on 5 sources
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Auction pipeline1
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MNRE (India)2026
MNRE offshore wind programme — VGF scheme for 1,000 MW off Gujarat/Tamil Nadu; SECI implementation; 30 GW by 2030 aim.
supportsIndia first VGF offshore wind tender (Gujarat / Tamil Nadu)
Trade press4
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