Context: Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy officially launched India’s first dedicated wind turbine supply chain management portal, WT-MARUT, at the Global Wind Day Conference in Goa.
About Wind Turbine Supply Chain Management Portal (WT-MARUT):
What It Is?
- WT-MARUT is India’s first indigenous, centralized digital platform explicitly dedicated to managing, tracking, and optimizing the domestic wind turbine manufacturing supply chain ecosystem.
Ministry: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
Aim: The aim of WT-MARUT is to strengthen India’s domestic wind manufacturing capabilities and drive inclusion across the supply chain.
Key Features of the Portal:
- Supply Chain Visibility & Mapping: Provides end-to-end operational visibility across the entire tier-structured wind energy component network, from raw processing to final assembly.
- Automated ALMM Compliance: Facilitates smooth compliance with domestic sourcing rules under the government’s Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) framework, ensuring clear tracking of local content requirements.
- Supplier Discovery and Qualification: Functions as a business-to-business platform that helps project developers find, verify, and qualify component suppliers, reducing procurement times.
- Cross-Sector Collaboration Hub: Serves as a unified communication and data-sharing platform linking turbine manufacturers, independent power producers, component designers, and policy regulators.
- Export Readiness Analytics: Incorporates tracking mechanisms to help domestic manufacturers align their component specifications with international quality standards, enhancing global trade operations.
Significance:
- India has installed 56.1 GW of wind capacity but has utilized only a small share of its estimated 1,164 GW potential. WT-MARUT provides a centralized platform to accelerate project development and support the national target of 100 GW by 2030.
- With wind equipment exports exceeding ₹12,000 crore in FY 2025–26, WT-MARUT strengthens India’s manufacturing ecosystem. It supports India’s ambition to capture 10% of global wind turbine exports by 2030 and 20% by 2040.
