Tamil Nadu is still the first choice for wind power developers. Several wind power companies that participated in Renergy 2012, a renewable energy event organised by the Tamilnadu Energy Development Agency, have said that despite having 6,300 mw of wind power capacity – about 40 per cent of the total installed capacity in the country – Tamil Nadu has still a lot of good sites to offer.
CLP India Senior vice-president-Finance Hemant Joshi told a business newspaper on March 13 that once the evacuation infrastructure is in place, the company would come back to Tamil Nadu.
The company wanted to add capacity in the state, but power evacuation issues have caused the company to wait and watch The Hong Kong-based CLP India, which is incidentally the largest foreign investor in India's power sector, has 99 mw of wind assets in Theni, Tamil Nadu. .