FOWPI (First Offshore Wind Project of India)
Status
On Holdlifecycle stage
FragileHafrok completion outlook
Ownership
CECOWI (EU/MNRE/NIWE-backed) — 100% ◇
Location
IndiaArabian Sea
Technology
Capacity
200 MW ◇
Turbines
—
Foundation
—
Site & conditions
Site rights
No site right ◆
Water depth
5–14 m ≈
Distance from shore
25 km ◇
Wind speed
6.6 m/s @ 150 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
—
Grid
—
Schedule
FID
Not taken
COD · Hafrok
—
Delivery outlook modelled by Hafrok · calibrated on delivered projects
—
on hold — no credible date; the chart shows when a restarted project might complete
Chance of delivery
≈13%
estimated chance this project reaches commercial operation
Projects put on hold complete ≈15% of the time on Hafrok's record. This one sits below that: a market with no delivery record yet, technical complexity and no offtake contract yet. Only a restart would change that — there is no dated schedule to judge against.
COD outlook
If it completes, when — Hafrok’s probability by year (teal)
| Year | Probability |
|---|---|
| 2030 | 20.0% |
| 2031 | 20.0% |
| 2032 | 20.0% |
| 2033 | 20.0% |
| 2034 | 20.0% |
How Hafrok got this date
1
On hold — no dated schedule
The project is recorded as On Hold, so no sequence of milestones can be trusted. Hafrok publishes no expected year; the chart instead spreads the remaining chance of completion over the years a restarted project might finish in.
2
Chance of delivery — separate from timing
Start from the share of On Hold projects that went on to complete — ≈15%, measured on Hafrok's record of delivered and abandoned projects, with an allowance held back where that record cannot yet speak (projects still unresolved, changed market conditions). Historically only a minority of projects put on hold returned to delivery — the estimate reflects that. Then adjust for this project's own evidence — offtake, market, size, technical complexity — to ≈13%, which rates it
Fragile on Hafrok's four-step delivery scale (Delivering · Expected · Prospective · Fragile).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. Timing math for the auction gate lives in the delivery outlook above.
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
StageOn Hold
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operationnot stated
Sources & verification
1/10 fields verified · rests on 7 sources (2 primary) · ◆ 1 document held
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Operator1
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EU Clean Energy Cooperation with India (CECP-EU) - FOWPI programme record2019◆ First Offshore Wind Project of India (FO…
“This project has been completed. [...] First Offshore Wind Project of India (FOWPI) was a project funded by European Union (EU) and it aimed to support Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and …”
supportsSite rights
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 press5
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