At a time when India is being hugely criticized for its continued support of cheap and dirty coal power plants, its failure to tempt international bidders to take up the next slice of wind power has to be seen as disastrous. It has experienced a shortfall in its VII auction for wind project developers for 1.2 GW of capacity, finding that only 4 successful applicants could live with its maximum price of $0.04 per KWh. The story broke in trade title Mercom India, which said that in all, bids totaling 600 MW were submitted against a tendered capacity of 1,200 MW. Engie bid for 200 MW, Sprng Energy bid for 100 MW; ReNew Power bid for 50 MW and Adani…