Energetica India Magazine -October 2020

past in India, what factors you feel were responsible for the same? In near future, how do you analyze the wind energy market growth for Indian market? Vestas believes in the renewable energy story in India, but it is also true that the recent past has been challenging. As an industry, lately, we have faced project executions delays because of land connectivity and permits. These have slowed down the growth in the wind sector. Having said that, we also firmly believe that India’s energy grid cannot stabilize without the growth of the wind sector. Wind will play a key role in meet- ing India’s growing energy demands. We expect things to look up soon. What kind of support Vestas seeks from the Indian govern - ment during its expansion phase? India has always been and will continue to be a strategic market for Vestas. We have received extensive support for all our expansion plans from the Indian government in the past and we hope to do so in the future as well. More specifical - ly, we hope that the Government will continue to facilitate the traction in the renewable energy capacity addition, by way of creating a conducive environment where project executions can be expedited to be able to achieve the government’s ag- gressive renewable energy targets. Finally, yet importantly, the State Governments need to align their policies of permits and approvals (for setting up renewable energy projects) with the Central Government’s renewable energy policy for seamless execution. How Vestas has planned imparting technologically ad - vanced skills to its local employees in India both new and existing? As an organization, Vestas has always had a culture of enable- ment. Skill development is a continuous process at Vestas and we are constantly focused on offering our employees the right development and learning opportunities. We don’t only want to bring new jobs to India, we want to go much beyond that. We want to upskill the work force, enabling more and more people to get involved in clean energy. Ves- tas Training Centre in Chennai has already been declared by ‘Global Wind Organisation’ as the only wind OEM in India to provide training on “Working at Heights”. Vestas is also the Indian government’s official partner for the “Skill Development” initiative. We have worked with the Skill Council for Green Jobs to develop 10 models for hundreds of workers to obtain the necessary skills for the green jobs of the future. INTERVIEW 20 energetica INDIA- October_2020