A long-awaited tender for resource measurement deployment off the Indian state of Tamil Nadu suggests the focus of early offshore wind development there has nudged southwards, said a consultant closely following the industry.

India’s National Institute for Wind Energy (NIWE) issued the tender for a trio of floating buoy systems to support Lidar to gather wind and oceanographic data in the Gulf of Mannar in India’s far southeast, with a view to being up and running by mid-2022.