Organized by

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WIND ENERGY, CHENNAI

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India
and

GANDHIGRAM RURAL INSTITUTE, DINDIGUL

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

Sponsored by

MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY, NEW DELHI

Government of India
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INTRODUCTION
Renewable Energy in particular Wind has become mainstay in meeting energy needs having achieved grid parity in
term of costs as well as technical requirement. The wind energy has proved a highly successful energy option with
installation of over 651 GW worldwide and 37 GW in India by end of 2019. Decades of concerted efforts have
started to yield gratifying results and today, Wind power contributes about 10 % (37669.25 MW) of the total Indian
energy mix of 370 GW as on March 2020 and stands fourth in terms of installed wind power capacity worldwide. It
is estimated that viable wind power potential across globe is 72 TW, which is four times more than the current
World's total energy demand. The Indian estimated wind potential is more than 300 GW at 100 m height, which has
to be tapped at faster manner to increase the green energy contribution towards meeting the various national and
international targets and also to mitigate the climate changes issues. In this regard, skilled human resource is
critical at every stages of wind energy development i.e., from concept to the entire life time of wind turbine, which
is estimated to be beyond 25 years.
NIWE is the premier institute of its kind in the South East Asia perhaps in developing countries, it is in the forefront
in providing training support to various stockholders for both national and international level. In this regard,
NIWE has trained over 2000 professionals from 98 countries by organising 32 national and 40 international
training courses.
Considering the vast wind energy potential in the country and also across the world, creation of adequate skilled
and trained man power in various facets of the sector is need of the hour. It is therefore, with the directives of
MNRE, NIWE is in the process of developing a full fledged programme in wind sector called “Vayumitra”
towards addressing the above demand. As a first step in creating awareness about the wind and it technology and
also to promote and popularize the technology towards achieving maximum wind installation, “Vayumitra
Foundation Course” on Wind Energy Technology for technicians to engineers is designed. In this course,
fundamental aspects of entire gamut of wind generation is taught so to move towards achieving the target of
Government of India.

OBJECTIVE SCHEDULE
Name of the Course : Vayumitra Foundation Course on
The “Vayumitra Foundation Course” “Wind Energy Technology”
aims to provide a complete overview Duration : : 5 days encompassing presentations, lectures with case studies,
success stories and exercises. The training course timing will
about all aspects of Wind Energy be from 09.00 am to 06.00 pm
Technology starting from Participants : 35 participants per course
introduction to wind power and its No. of Courses : 10
t e c h n o l o g y, w i n d r e s o u r c e Due to COVID-19 restriction, training courses to be conducted has been
rescheduled
assessment, installation and
Phase-I Phase – II
commissioning of Wind Turbine Batch Venue Online Status Physical Contact
Generator, operation and Scheduled Dates Scheduled Dates
First NIWE 03rd & 04th August 2020 Completed 08th to 10th February 2021
maintenance aspects of wind farms
Second NIWE 03rd & 04th September 2020 Completed 11th to 13th February 2021
along with policy issues. The Third NIWE 17th & 18th September 2020 Completed 15th to 17th February 2021
programme will enable the Fourth NIWE 29th & 30th September 2020 Completed 18th to 20th February 2021
participants to basic awareness and Fifth NIWE 15th & 16th October 2020 Completed 22nd to 24th February 2021
know about details of setting up
Batch Venue Physical Contact Scheduled Dates
economically viable wind farm First GRI, Dindigul 08th to 12th February 2021
projects. This foundation Second GRI, Dindigul 15th to 19th February 2021
programme will enable the Third GRI, Dindigul 22nd to 26th February 2021
participants to scale up their skills Fourth GRI, Dindigul 01st to 05th March 2021
and facilitate for higher level of Fifth GRI, Dindigul 08th to 12th March 2021

Vayumitra programme to make true NIWE - National Institute of Wind Energy, Chennai (courses for Graduate and above)
professionals in the chosen field. GRI - Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindigul (courses for ITI and Diploma)

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COURSE CONTENT accommodation in twin sharing and three time meals.

The registration kit, Course Material and Participation
This “Vayumitra Foundation Course” is intended to
Certificate (subject to successul completion) will also be
cover the key topics such as
provided. To and fro travel charges from the place of
 Introduction to wind energy, evolution & residence to NIWE / Gandhigram (training venue) has to
developments be taken care by the participants.
 Fundamental aspects of
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
 Wind Turbine Technology
Category Qualification Age
 Wind Turbine components
*
Technicians ITI 25
 Wind resource assessment
Diploma Holders Diploma* 25
 Basics of
 Design of wind farm Engineers / Professionals Degree** / 30
Master Degree***
 Installation & commissioning of wind farms
* ITI / Diploma (Electrical, Electronics, Civil,
 Grid Integration Mechanical and Instrumentation)
 O&M aspects of wind farms ** Degree (Electrical, Electronics, Civil, Mechanical,
Instrumentation)
 Hybrid systems
*** Master Degree in Engineering or Science
 Government policies and supportive schemes
Age Relaxation will be given as per the norms of
RESOURCE PERSONS Government of India.
The resource persons for the training course would be
scientists / engineers of NIWE, Industry experts, REGISTRATION
engineers, scientists and academicians, who have The interested candidate should fill the
contributed significantly for the developments of energy, Registration Form online at the following link :
renewable energy and wind energy in particular. https://bit.ly/2W2LY3y in all respects on or before
10/07/2020. The applicant should also download the
TARGET PARTICIPANTS
attached Registration Form and duly fill it up and send
The “Vayumitra Foundation Course” designed to cater to the signed scanned copy to niwe.vayumitra@gmail.com
the needs of various personnel's such as technicians, and ntraining.niwe@nic.in along with the proof of
engineers etc focusing on the unemployed youths with identification and required documents. Due to limited
rural background. It is proposed to train 350 participants number of seats (35 seats per course), while selecting the
(with 10 courses) with the focused group of technicians, participants, preference would be given to SC (15%), ST
diploma and graduates / post graduate engineers / (7.5%), OBC (27%) and EWS (10%) as per the norms of
professionals. Government of India. If the number of application is
more than the prescribed limits, the selection of the
COURSE FEE participants will be based on the marks attained in the
The Course is completely free, which is sponsored by eligible qualification (aggregate of all the years or
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), semester) and the write up of the reason(s) provided by
Government of India. There is no Registration Fee and the candidates in the application form for choosing
the selected participants will be provided free Vayumitra Programme.

COURSE COORDINATOR
Dr. P. KANAGAVEL
Director & Head
Skill Development and Training (SDT) Division
National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE)
Velachery – Tambaram Main Road, Pallikaranai, Chennai – 600 100, Tamil Nadu, India
Phone: +91-44-2246 3982 / 83 / 84, +91-44-2246 3994
Mobile: +91-9445798007 E-mail: ntraining.niwe@nic.in

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 ABOUT NIWE
National Institute of Wind Energy formerly Centre for Wind Energy Technology shortly known as NIWE is an autonomous
R&D institution established at Chennai in 1998 by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India.
It is a premier institution with highly experienced professionals having expertise in all related disciplines of wind energy
sector. NIWE is a forward looking and practical institution always well placed to take the next logical steps towards
advancing wind technology in the right direction. With its progressive approach to all wind energy related science and
technology from onshore to offshore, NIWE assures assistance from resource assessment (both wind and solar, RE
forcasting for Energy production) to project implementation. As an integral part of NIWE, a world class accredited Services
providing Wind Turbine Test Station (WTTS) is established at Kayathar, Tamil Nadu. Perhaps, NIWE is the only Testing and
Certifying agency in the country.

NIWE has been vested with the responsibility to provide complete scientific and technical backing to all stakeholders in the
field of wind energy and has stated its commitment through its quality policy.

QUALITY POLICY
NIWE is committed to achieve customer satisfaction, loyalty and confidence by
providing credible, prompt and complete solutions of international quality to all
the stakeholders in the wind energy sector.
NIWE, strives to be technical focal point of excellence for the present and future.
NIWE shall stay at the forefront of Wind Turbine Technology application by
continuously improving its expertise.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WIND ENERGY

An Autonomous Research and Development Institution
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India
Velachery – Tambaram Main Road, Pallikaranai, Chennai – 600 100, Tamil Nadu, India
Phone: +91-44-2246 3982, +91-44-2246 3983, +91-44-2246 3984 Fax: +91-44-2246 3980
E-mail: info.niwe@nic.in Web: http://niwe.res.in