The Hindu Business Line : ICMS-Power plans wind turbine generator plant in TN

Coimbatore, June 20 ICMS-Power, the wind mill technology division of International Consultancy and Management Services (ICMS), is looking at the scope of starting a wind turbine generator manufacturing plant for domestic and industrial application in Tamil Nadu.

Disclosing this to newsmen here today, the ICMS-Power’s Executive Director, Ms Saritha Biju Nair, said the WTG production plans would be the next priority once ICMS puts its marketing networking for its range of domestic wind turbines in the State in place.

ICMS-Power formally launched marketing of ‘Unitron-UE’ series of domestic wind turbine in Tamil Nadu today that comes in four variants of 600 watt, 1500 watt, 3300 watt and 4200 watt capacity generators.

A member of the Indian Wind Energy Association, ICMS is already producing these domestic wind turbines indigenously at its Pune plant and is in the process of extending marketing across the country.

“We have already sold 1600 units, largely in North Indian states in the last two years and now, we have started aggressively marketing in South, especially in Tamil Nadu, which has huge potential considering the current phase of difficult power situation prevailing in the region”, said Mr R.C. Ravi, Director of ICMS-Power.

Considering the high wind potential in Tamil Nadu, the low-breeze technology-driven wind turbines produced by the company will be highly suitable to meet the power requirements of domestic and small-scale industries, ICMS-Power officials say.

The 600-watt capacity wind turbines, for example, which can generate a maximum 150 units of electricity (sufficient enough for a four-member family) at an optimum wind velocity of 1.8 metre a second, have the potential to generate 280 units with Tamil Nadu (whose year round average wind speed is put at 2.5-4.5 metre per second) recording an average peak wind velocity up to 15.5 metre a second, especially during the peak April-November season, Ms Nair claimed.

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