India will restart its offshore wind auction process early next year after cancelling two large-scale tenders in 2025. The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy plans to issue a tender for the Tamil Nadu coast in February, following the completion of a wind data assessment by the National Institute of Wind Energy in January.
The ministry aims to finalise the tender by mid-2026. The previous auctions, run by the Solar Energy Corporation of India, were withdrawn due to limited developer interest and had included a 4 GW seabed lease off Tamil Nadu and a 500 MW project in the Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat. A new Viability Gap Funding scheme has since been introduced, supporting 1 GW of offshore wind in its first phase, split equally between Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.
