Chennai, April 7 (TIWN) The National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) will set up an offshore wind energy research centre with a test bed with two turbines of over 8 MW capacity at an outlay of Rs 350 crore in Tamil Nadu, said a top official.

"We will be setting up an offshore wind energy test bed and research centre at Dhanushkodi (near Rameswaram in Ramanathapuram District). We have got 75 acres of land allotted for the project," K. Balaraman Kannan, NIWE Director General told IANS.  According to him, the plan is to install two wind turbines with 8MW or higher to study the wind profile for setting up offshore wind energy projects.