India and Germany are among the world’s leading nations in wind energy—and face the same challenges: grid integration, repowering, and offshore tenders. As part of a BMZ-funded partnership between chambers of commerce and industry associations, the BWE, the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation, and their Indian partner associations WIPPA and IWTMA are joining forces. The goal is genuine technological cooperation: connecting companies, sharing knowledge, and jointly developing solutions—for the energy transition in both countries.
Wind Associations Partnership IndiaInternational Association Partnership · Funded by the BMZ
The BWE, the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation, and Indian partner associations WIPPA and IWTMA are working together to connect companies, exchange knowledge, and develop joint solutions to current challenges in the wind energy sector.
Duration: December 2025 – November 2028 | Budget: 810,000 euros | Funding body: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Why Germany and India?
India and Germany share a common interest: the transformation of their energy systems toward renewable energy. India faces a historic challenge—as the world’s most populous country, with gross electricity consumption set to rise by more than 54% by 2034, it must simultaneously ensure energy security and meet its climate goals. Wind energy is a central pillar of this effort: The Indian government has set a target of 100 GW of installed wind power capacity by 2030.
Germany brings decades of experience in the planning, operation, and regulation of wind farms—both onshore and offshore. Whether it’s grid integration, repowering, or the development of an offshore sector: Where India stands today, Germany has already developed solutions and learned lessons from which both sides can benefit.
At the same time, both countries face the same structural challenges in expanding wind energy—above all, integrating large volumes of wind power into existing grids, managing feed-in fluctuations, and modernizing older plants. These shared challenges make the partnership a true technological collaboration: Germany and India learn from one another, jointly develop solutions, and thereby strengthen the innovative capacity of both wind sectors.
At the same time, the Indian market offers German companies significant business opportunities: there is strong demand for German technological expertise, the market is growing rapidly, and the Indian government is actively seeking foreign investment in the renewable energy sector. A structured chamber and association partnership (KVP) provides the institutional framework needed to effectively and sustainably align these mutual interests.
For German Companies
The Indian wind energy market offers attractive business opportunities due to the high demand for German technological expertise. The association partnership creates concrete platforms for business networking. It should be noted that the “Make in India” policy requires a local branch office in order to operate in the Indian market on a long-term basis. Interested companies can contact the BWE directly.
The association partnership reflects the political will to more closely integrate foreign trade promotion and development cooperation with regard to India—to the benefit of both countries.
Background and Development
India is one of the world’s leading nations in wind energy: approximately 56 GW of wind power capacity is already connected to the grid; the Indian government’s goal is to reach 100 GW by 2030, as part of an overall expansion of renewable energy to 500 GW of installed capacity. The country’s rapidly growing energy demand makes India one of the most significant wind energy markets in the world.
The foundation for the partnership was laid by the BWE’s participation in the BMZ delegation trip to RE-INVEST 2024 in Gujarat. There, BWE Vice President Ralf Hendricks signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian wind energy association WIPPA—a first clear signal of deeper cooperation between the two sides.
This was followed in August 2025 by a week-long fact-finding mission to New Delhi: The future partners jointly identified the needs on both the German and Indian sides and got to know each other better in the process. Feed-in forecasts and the handling of penalties, grid integration of renewable energies, repowering, and the ramp-up of offshore wind energy emerged as the central focal points of the partnership.
Official Announcement at Windergy 2025
In late October 2025, Parliamentary State Secretary Johann Saathoff officially launched the new chamber and association partnership at Windergy in Chennai—India’s largest wind energy trade fair. From October 29 to 31, BWE Vice President Ralf Hendricks attended the trade fair as part of the German business delegation: As a speaker, he provided insights into the opportunities and challenges of international cooperation, while the BWE was represented with its own booth in the German Pavilion.
Partner Organizations
The partnership brings together two German and two Indian organizations: The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) is the lead German partner and the leading trade association for the German wind energy sector. The Offshore Wind Energy Foundation (SOW) contributes its expertise in international knowledge transfer in the offshore sector. On the Indian side, the Wind Independent Power Producers Association (WIPPA) represents project developers and wind farm operators, while the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA) represents component manufacturers and suppliers to the Indian wind industry.
Objectives of the Partnership
The chamber and association partnership pursues three key objectives: first, the targeted networking of German and Indian companies in the wind energy sector through structured matchmaking; second, the strengthening of professional exchange on technical, regulatory, and market-related topics; and third, the joint development of solutions to current challenges in wind energy—from grid integration to offshore ramp-up.
Activities and Events
The partnership features a broad range of initiatives: trade show appearances featuring panel discussions and presentations, bilateral roundtables, virtual and in-person technical workshops, and regular market updates. Planned activities include a technical workshop on grid integration of wind energy in New Delhi, workshops on offshore wind and repowering, joint appearances at the ASEAN Wind Expo in Bangkok and the Recharge Wind Summit in Singapore, participation in WindEnergy Hamburg, and involvement in Windergy in Chennai.
