Adani comes for wind turbines, testing Suzlon’s hard-won calm

Key Highlights

• After scaling India’s renewable energy landscape faster than anyone else, across solar parks, transmission networks and green hydrogen, the Adani Group now wants to manufacture wind turbines not just for itself, but for the market. The ambition is vast.
• Adani has said it wants to deploy around 30GW of wind capacity by 2030, or a third of the country’s 100GW target by then.
• Until recently, Adani’s turbine manufacturing was widely assumed to be a captive exercise, designed primarily to feed the group’s own rapidly expanding power needs.
• The Opera Energy order has punctured that assumption.
• Adani is positioning itself as a supplier, not merely a buyer, and is clearly testing whether its capital strength and execution speed can be translated into credibility in a business that judges performance over decades rather than quarters. For Suzlon Energy Ltd, India’s largest wind turbine maker and one of the few global survivors in a brutally cyclical industry, the timing is unsettling.