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Biogas
Plans for 4 new biomethane plants in Bhubaneswar

Plans for 4 new biomethane plants in Bhubaneswar

Plans by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to set up four biomethane plans in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, Odisha State, have been approved by the Empowerment Committee of Infrastructure. In total, the plants should process…

Biogas
Reliance Industries plans new CBG investments in West Bengal

Reliance Industries plans new CBG investments in West Bengal

Indian private sector corporation Reliance Industries Limited plans to invest INR 200 billion (EUR 2.2 billion) to expand its energy business, among other things, in the eastern state of West Bengal. According to the report,…

Biomass Energy
India determines pellet price benchmark

India determines pellet price benchmark

The Indian Ministry of Power has defined price benchmarks for biomass pellet prices. The price regulation is planned for one year, starting on 8 November 2023. In the Northern Region, pellet prices amount to INR…

Biogas
New biogas plant proposed in Coimbatore

New biogas plant proposed in Coimbatore

The Coimbatore Municipal Corporation has plans to establish a new biogas plant in the Vellalore dump yard in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The proposed plant should have a capacity of 100 tpd to generate biogas that…

Biogas
New Barabanki CNG plant operational

New Barabanki CNG plant operational

A new biogas plant has started operations in Chandauli, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. The new AD plant was set up under the UP Global Investors Summit for an investment of INR 1.5 billion (EUR 16.83 million).…

Biogas
10 CBG plants to be set up in Punjab

10 CBG plants to be set up in Punjab

The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) to set up 10 compressed biogas (CBG) projects in Punjab. The plants are expected to produce a…

Biogas
3 new biogas plants to start near Chennai in 2024

3 new biogas plants to start near Chennai in 2024

Three new biogas plants should be operational by Februrary 2024 near Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The plants are supposed to be set up at the direction of Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) in Manali, Shollinganallur, and Koyambedu.…

Biogas
New CBG plant in Dhuriapar on trial run

New CBG plant in Dhuriapar on trial run

The CBG plant in Dhuriapar, Uttar Pradesh, has started the trial run phase. The plant, developed by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, is to process 230 tpd of straw and mud, but crop residue and cow…

Biogas
12 biogas projects approved in Uttar Pradesh

12 biogas projects approved in Uttar Pradesh

The state-level committee of Uttar Pradesh has approved 12 proposed biogas and biodiesel production facilities. The approved facilities should process agricultural waste and produce 93 tpd of CBG and 44 kilo litres of biodiesel daily.…

Biogas
New AD plant to be built in Ujjain

New AD plant to be built in Ujjain

The Ujjain Municipal Corporation has published plans to develop a new AD plant for CNG production in Madhya Pradesh. Three companies plan to join forces with the Cyaorporation for the realisation of this project. Currently,…

Biogas
New biogas tender launched in Nuapada

New biogas tender launched in Nuapada

The Office of the Zilla Parishad (District Office) of Nuapada, Odisha, has launched a call for tender for the construction of a biogas plant. The Office addresses enterprises that own a population of at least…

Biogas
Update on new AD project in Mumbai

Update on new AD project in Mumbai

More information has been shared on the AD project in Mumbai, which was proposed by Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The MoU has been signed by the partners. The future facility…

Biogas
Large CBG project to be developed in Gurugram

Large CBG project to be developed in Gurugram

In Gurugram, Haryana, a new CBG plant is to be developed. The CBG facility should generate biogas by processing 600 to 700 tpd of wet waste produced in the city. The plant is expected to…

Biogas
New biogas project to be built in Matanhail

New biogas project to be built in Matanhail

A new pilot project is proposed to be developed in Matanhail, Jhajjar district, Haryana. This is according to a recent news report. The proposed plant should treat 10 tpd of organic waste, such as dung,…

Biogas
Plans for new CBG project in Hoshiarpur

Plans for new CBG project in Hoshiarpur

The Government of the state of Punjab is planning to develop a CBG plant in Baroti village, Hoshiarpur district. Plans provide for the plant to process 49,350 tpy of agricultural residues to produce 20 tpd…

Biogas
Adani Total Gas received new order for CBG plant

Adani Total Gas received new order for CBG plant

Indian gas company Adani Total Gas Ltd has announced plans to design, construct, finance and operate a compressed biogas plants in PPP mode in Pirana or Gyaspur, near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The order was submitted by…

Biogas
Suzuki agrees on 4 new AD projects in Banaskantha

Suzuki agrees on 4 new AD projects in Banaskantha

Automobile company Suzuki Motor Corporation has signed an agreement for the development of four biogas production plants in Gujarat. The agreement was concluded between Suzuki R&D Center India Private Limited, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB),…

Biogas
Bengaluru to get four new AD plants

Bengaluru to get four new AD plants

Four new small-scale AD projects are to be installed in Bengaluru, Karnataka, within the next 4 to 5 months. Each AD plant should treat wet waste, animal, and horticultural waste. Tenders for the projects have…

Biomass Energy
New Biomass to Energy plant coming to Ganeshnagar

New Biomass to Energy plant coming to Ganeshnagar

Power producer Hutah Industries is moving forward with plans to build a biomass power plant in the AK Industrial Village in Ganeshnagar, Nagaland. The plant should generate 10 MWel of electricity in a moving grate…

Biogas
New AD plant erected in Hyderabad

New AD plant erected in Hyderabad

A biogas plant has been built in Hyderabad, Telangana. The small-scale AD plant should process food waste from the Bowenpally market in Secunderabad. The plant should use a technology developed by the Indian Institute of…

Biogas
Plans for the new Kochi CBG plant approved

Plans for the new Kochi CBG plant approved

The State Cabinet has approved the proposal by oil and gas company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) to develop a CBG plant at the Brahmapuram landfill in Kochi, Kerala. Initially, the plant should process 150…

Biogas
Barsana AD plant under construction

Barsana AD plant under construction

The AD project in Barsana, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, by Adani Total Gas is currently in the construction phase. The CBG plant should treat an unspecified amount of agricultural waste to produce 42,000 nm³ daily. According…

Biogas
New Ramnagar AD plant fully operational

New Ramnagar AD plant fully operational

The Parag Dairy AD plant in Ramnagar, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, is operating at full capacity. The plant, developed by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), should treat 100 tpd of cow dung and produce 4,000…

Biogas
Lasanpur AD plant to be operational in 2023

Lasanpur AD plant to be operational in 2023

Indian company Gruner Renewable Energy is constructing a new AD plant in Lasanpur, Samudrapur, Maharashtra. The plant is expected to be operational by the end of 2023 and should treat 50 tpd of napier grass,…

Biogas
5,000 new CBG plants planned across India

5,000 new CBG plants planned across India

The Indian government intends to shift national fuel consumption to renewable fuels and CBG. To achieve this goal, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has launched the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) initiative.…

Biogas
New details on Shahanshahpur AD plant

New details on Shahanshahpur AD plant

An update has been published on the AD plant in Shahanshahpur, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, which has been in operation since 2021. The plant’s processing rate was reportedly increased from 55 tpd of cow manure to…

Biogas
Approval for 42 new urban AD plants

Approval for 42 new urban AD plants

The Indian Ministry of Finance announced plans to build 500 new AD plants across the country, of which 75 are to be build in urban areas. Most of the urban plants should be build in…

Composting
Bhubaneshwar to have two new wet waste plants

Bhubaneshwar to have two new wet waste plants

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to establish two new facilities for the management of wet waste collected from its wards, including a windrow composting plant and three other green garbage processing facilities. The…

Biogas
Biogas Association urges Delhi govt to set up biogas plants in PPP mode

Biogas Association urges Delhi govt to set up biogas plants in PPP mode

The Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has urged the Delhi government to set up biogas plants under the public-private partnership (PPP) model at landfill sites in Delhi to deal with the problem of mounting solid waste…

Biogas
GAIL to build new AD plant at Sarai village landfill

GAIL to build new AD plant at Sarai village landfill

Gas company GAIL India Limited and the Municipality of Haridwar, Uttarakhand, have plans to develop an AD plant at the site of a landfill in Sarai village. Plans for the plant provide to treat 120…

Biogas
Jamsher biogas project faces further delays

Jamsher biogas project faces further delays

The construction of the AD plant at the Jamsher Dairy Complex is facing further delays, as the approval from Chandigarh local authority is still pending, according to the source. Initially, approval was expected for June…

Biogas
New biogas project in Assam

New biogas project in Assam

A new compressed biogas plant is to be built in Sonapur, Assam. The plant should process, among others, MSW and cattle manure and produce 5 tpd of compressed biogas. The construction should be carried out…

Biomass Energy
Punjab: Proposal for 100 MWel of biomass plants

Punjab: Proposal for 100 MWel of biomass plants

The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy of the State of Punjab has proposed plans to develop 100 MWel of biomass power projects. According to the report, the Ministry is seeking Viability Gap Funding of…

Biogas
Plans for new biogas plant in Chattisgarh

Plans for new biogas plant in Chattisgarh

The Gobar Dhan Yojana Committee has reached an agreement about the construction of an AD plant in Ranveerpur, Chhattisgarh. The plant will process 1.59 tpd of manure from local farms. The production capacity will amount…

Biomass Energy
New biomass power plant proposed in Raipur

New biomass power plant proposed in Raipur

The Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board has approved plans by iron manufacturer Vandana Global Limited to develop a biomass power plant in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The plant should be fuelled with rice husk and have a capacity…

Biogas
New AD plant installed in Punjab

New AD plant installed in Punjab

In Punjab, a dairy farmer has installed a new AD plant that gets fed with manure originating from his 150 cows, according to a news report. The plant produces biogas that gets delivered to local…

Biogas
Indian Biogas Association seeks funding of Rs 1,000-crore in Budget 2023

Indian Biogas Association seeks funding of Rs 1,000-crore in Budget 2023

Ahead of the Union Budget, the Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has asked the government to set up a Rs 1000 crore fund to promote the use of fermented organic manure (FOM) in agriculture. According to…

Biomass Energy
Shikhar Commodities acquires 8 MW biomass plant

Shikhar Commodities acquires 8 MW biomass plant

The company M/s Shikhar Commodities has acquired an 8 MW biomass power plant located in the federal state of Chhattisgarh from M/s Vandana Vidyut Limited. The source does not provide the plant’s exact location. According…

Biogas
New biogas plant to be built in Halamala

New biogas plant to be built in Halamala

Plans for the construction of a biogas plant in the area of Kishanganj, Bihar state, have been given approval under the Gobar Dhan biogas support scheme. According to the source, the plant was initially planned…

Composting
Horticulture dept shares Kashmir’s focus on vermicompost units

Horticulture dept shares Kashmir’s focus on vermicompost units

Over the last six years, the Horticulture Department Kashmir has distributed 3661 vermicompost units to farmers in order to recycle organic material into rich and usable soil. From 2014-16 to 2020-21, 2553 are covered by…

Biogas
GAIL to set up CBG plant in Bengaluru

GAIL to set up CBG plant in Bengaluru

The Karnataka government has given the green signal to GAIL Gas Limited (CGL) to build a compressed biogas (CBG) plant on an 18-acre BBMP plot of land in Mandur on the outskirts of Bengaluru. GAIL…

Biogas
New Barsana CBG plant under construction

New Barsana CBG plant under construction

Multinational company Adani Group has started construction of a CBG plant at the Shrimata Ji Gaushala in Barsana, Uttar Pradesh. Once completed, according to the report, the plant should process waste from about 50,000 cattle…

Biogas
Tender expected soon for new Vidisha biogas plant

Tender expected soon for new Vidisha biogas plant

A tender should soon be issued for the construction works of a new biogas plant planned at the Sonthiya landfill in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. According to the source, the contract to be tendered is worth…

Biogas
New large AD plant proposed in Ludhiana

New large AD plant proposed in Ludhiana

The Municipal Corporation of Ludhiana has presented plans to set up a large-scale biogas plant in Ludhiana, Punjab. Plans provide for the plant to process 200 tpd of wet biowaste to produce CNG. If approved…

Biogas
New AD plant in Bachhaipur

New AD plant in Bachhaipur

A new biogas plant should be set up in Bachhaipur, Ballia, Uttar Pradesh. The project is being developed under the Swachh Bharat Mission scheme. The plant should cost INR 2.5 million (EUR 29,400). Once completed,…

Biogas
34 new CBG proposals announced in Uttar Pradesh

34 new CBG proposals announced in Uttar Pradesh

The Uttar Pradesh state government has reportedly received 38 proposals expressing interest to invest in bioenergy projects. As further stated, a total of INR 5 billion (EUR 59.06 million) is supposed to be invested into…

Biogas
Six new CBG plants for Barabanki district

Six new CBG plants for Barabanki district

As per the source, a total of six biogas plants are supposed to be set up in the Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh. Along with stubble, wheat and other crop residues, waste from sugar mills, weeds…

Biogas
Three Bio-CNG plants to be set up in Delhi in 2023

Three Bio-CNG plants to be set up in Delhi in 2023

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has “initiated” work for two digesters for an integrated bio-CNG fuel station in North Delhi’s Narela region in Ghogha. The first raw material should be sent to the plants in…

Biogas
New biogas plant coming to Tirumala

New biogas plant coming to Tirumala

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a biogas plant running on wet waste in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh. This project is said to be…

Biogas
New Lehragaga AD plant inaugurated

New Lehragaga AD plant inaugurated

On 18 October 2022, a new biogas plant was due to become operational in the Bhutal Kalan village of Lehragaga in Sangrur. The facility worth INR 2.2 billion (EUR 27.26 million) is considered as India’s…