Wind Energy Potential in Karnataka, India

Ramachandra T.V.^* and Shruthi B.V.⁺

^*Energy Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
⁺Centre for Sustainable Technologies (ASTRA), Indian Institute of Science

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INTRODUCTION

Wind energy commerce is one of the fastest-growing and economic energy sectors in the world [1, 2]. However, the wind resource is governed by the climatology of the region concerned and has large variability in location and season. Hence, the need to conduct wind resource surveys for exploiting wind energy, as below for Karnataka, India.