The wind here makes more noise than the turbine. At times, so say the officials, that the wind reaches 10 meters per second enough to complain of a bad hair day. I am at this Wind Farm some 250 odd kilometers from Mumbai. And the only song that’s playing in my head right now is “Winds of Change” by the Scorpions. Welcome to Asia’s Biggest Wind Farm (come 2010). Welcome to Suzlon.
A traditional Gujrati boy getting into textiles is kinda understood in India. But a traditional Gujrati boy quitting textiles to buy wind turbines is very ungujrati so to speak. Not for Tulsi Tanti though. Which is why he made his billion by investing in 2005 way back in 1995.
And today hundreds of folks want to buy his turbines and help save the earth (pun intended) and yet make some money. So why not us?
Now this is our plan. Natconn will buy these giant machines for 9 crore each. And Mr. Tanti will install each one of them at his farms any where in the world and pay me for producing energy. A clean one. In fact, he will be responsible for the entire chain of things. Land, Transmission, Distribution, Maintenance and other blah blahs.
What next? I sign the PPA, which is the Power Purchase Agreement with Government through Suzlon and in turn the Government pays me a millions dollars (4 odd crore) for producing such a friendly stuff. For 20 years. That’s not bad socioeconomically. How about a new name for our power division? Like NATCONN POWER. Or Just WINERGY. We’ll be there my lovely. Soonest.
Stick around for some pictures though :)
