Why indviduals in india cannt put up wind mills and get paid for electricity supplied to grid?

Question

I am told in denmark anyone can install a windmill in their farm and even in their back yard, then supply electricity to the grid.Every month distribution company man comes and reads the meter next to the mill and pays the windmill holder as per electricity supplied. Why can't such system work in india in places where sufficient wind velocity is available.It will provide employment as well as much needed green energy to this country.

Answer 1

It could be done, but the government doesn't want it done for whatever reason.  Talk to your government and ask why they don't let people do that.

Answer 2

wind energy is very good for the environment, but there needs to be a consistent flow of wind in order to produce energy that can be used also windmills are quite expensive and require a considerable amount of space

Answer 3

I am not sure what you ask ("why individuals in india can't put up wind mills & get paid for electricity supplied to grid?") is strictly true. Not wind energy, but solar energy seem to have at least some elements of Government backing - at least in West Bengal. "Rabirashmi Abasan" (Google on it if you like)  - India's first integrated solar housing complex has been set up in Kolkata. The project had stakeholders like West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency, West Bengal Housing Board etc. To quote a news report,

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... it is perhaps the first project in the country where residents push power — generated in their rooftop solar photovoltaic panels — into the grid of power utilities. If they are “power surplus”, they can supply it to the state power utilities and the balance is adjusted to their total consumption of electricity. In this “net metering concept”, consumers pay only for the net energy consumption (calculated on how much they consume from power utilities and how much they push into the grid).

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Happy research!

- Rajib GanChaudhuri.