Mumbai, Dec. 17 -- When Adani Wind supplied its first external turbine order, 3.3MW machines for a 70MW project for Opera Energy, a renewable energy company in Gujarat, it did more than add a customer.

It signalled intent. After scaling India's renewable energy landscape faster than anyone else, across solar parks, transmission networks and green hydrogen, the Adani Group now wants to manufacture wind turbines not just for itself, but for the market.

The ambition is vast. Adani has said it wants to deploy around 30GW of wind capacity by 2030, or a third of the country's 100GW target by then. Until recently, Adani's turbine manufacturing was widely assumed to be a captive exercise, designed primarily to feed the group's own rapidly expan...