17 August :The wind-power potential in the country is 45000MW.The present production is 8760MW where as the Ministry has decided the target for 11th plan at 10500 MW.The Ministry has initiated new scheme of Generation Based Initiative (GBI) scheme for wind power generation. The objective of the scheme is to attract new and large independent power producers to wind sector. The GBI would be paid only to Grid Interactive plants of capacity 5MW or more. The rate of GBI will be 50 paisa per unit of electricity and would be paid for a period of 10 years