The WSJ did a great piece on Suzlon, the leading producer of Wind Energy in India, and its parvenu founder Tulsi.

The article here.

Michael Parekh, who happens to be from the hometown of Tulsi covered it here. The whole story of its birth sounds rather interesting from a ‘Find a need, fill a need’ perspective.

Thanks to Suzlon, India is now the 4th largest producer of Wind Power in the world even though it started only fairly recently. Our polity deserves some praise for its pro-wind policies as well. However, as is mostly the case, we have still got some distance as mentioned on this potential production stats page here.

Take the case of Andhra Pradesh - we produced 121 MW of wind power in 2007 when our estimated potential is around 8275 MW.

It looks like sky is the limit for Suzlon. They are even bagging orders from China to generate power for them.

Suzlon stock anyone?