JSW Energy Limited announced the commissioning of its wind blade manufacturing plant at Halol, Gujarat, marking a significant step in vertically integrating its wind energy value chain and de-risking its supply chain.

The Company currently operates an installed wind energy capacity of 3.9 GW. Further, the Company has 6.5 GW of locked-in hybrid capacity - in which wind is an integral component, and 2.4 GW of plain-vanilla locked-in wind projects, making it one of the largest wind power players in the country.

To support its future wind energy growth plans, the Company has commissioned a wind blade manufacturing facility at Halol, Gujarat, with another plant in advanced stages of commissioning at Chitradurga, Karnataka. The now fully commissioned Halol facility has an annual production capacity of
up to 450 wind blades, equivalent to 600 MW of wind projects. The plant will manufacture 82-metre wind blades compatible with 4 MW Wind Turbine Generators.

This in-house manufacturing capability will enable the Company to de-risk its supply chain, support MNRE's domestic content requirements, and further optimize capital expenditure on wind energy projects by reducing logistics and other input costs, thereby enhancing the IRR profile of these projects.
It also insulates the Company from input price fluctuations in wind blades.