The controversy-hit industrial empire of billionaire Gautam Adani claimed a primary step to constructing a variety of “made in India” wind generators because it introduced sort certification for a brand new mannequin.

Adani Wind advised buyers on the Mumbai Stock Exchange that its 5.2MW onshore machine – which it’s billing as “India’s largest” – acquired sort certification from WindGuard.

The unit of Adani New Industries mentioned it could actually now “start series production for global markets” of the turbine, which it developed with German know-how accomplice W2E Wind to Energy. A prototype of the turbine with a 160-metre rotor diameter is put in in Mundra, India.

Adani joins a roll name of producers competing for a share of India’s increasing wind energy market, with contenders starting from native stalwart Suzlon to China’s Envision and western giants reminiscent of Siemens Gamesa and Vestas.

“We are focused on building a portfolio of high-yield next generation wind turbines made in India and are well-poised to cater to the global wind energy demand,” mentioned Milind Kulkarni, chief working officer of Adani Wind.

The Adani Wind transfer into turbine manufacturing is the most recent assertion of intent by Adani, certainly one of Asia’s richest individuals, who earlier this 12 months suffered a shares rout that wiped as much as $100bn from the worth of his conglomerate’s firms.

The fall was sparked by a report from a short-selling US research group referred to as Hindenburg forward of a $2.5bn share challenge by its Adani Enterprises unit, with extraordinary claims that the Adani conglomerate had engaged in “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud”.

Adani has persistently denied any malpractice and labelled the Hindenberg report a “deliberate and malicious attempt aimed at damaging our reputation and generating profits through a short-term drive-down of our stock prices”, including that official reviews had exonerated the group.