Energy-hungry India eyes role as "wind superpower"

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Dec 3, 2007 5:07 AM EST

Article Source: Reuters

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NEW DELHI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - India might be painted as a pollution-spewing, global-warming economy of 1 billion people but it is also one of the world's biggest wind power users, part of a focus on renewable energy mostly unnoticed in the West.

Years of tax incentives have helped make India one of the fastest-growing markets for wind power, a major component of renewable energy that will be high on the agenda of the Dec. 3-14 UN climate change meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

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