INDIA NEEDS COMBINATION OF ENERGY SECURITY, REQUIRED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND THE RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH (LPG CRISES)

Compressed Biogas offers India a rare combination of energy security, environmental sustainability and rural economic growth. The country has an estimated potential of 62 MMT of CBG annually from agricultural residues, animal waste and municipal solid waste but the current output is just 920 tonnes per day from 132 operational plants. This is not a resource constraint and it is an execution failure. No doubt the policy intent is strong but to be failure initiatives such as Sustainable Alternatives towards affordable transportation and galvanizing organic Bio Agro resources have laid on the ground duty works offering assured offtake financial Incentives and a clear vision for a bioenergy ecosystem, but the progress on the ground has been slow. Feed stock supply remains fragmented and unreliable however financing is often delayed or inadequate where the regulatory approvals may take more time as required, and the market remaining underdeveloped, so it is clear that India has made the vision but not yet the system required to deliver it at scale and for which the decision making action is needed for which it is necessary to establish a National frame work, necessary for feedstock and security service, where a reliable and predictable supply chain of biomass, no CBG project can succeed and it is necessary to improve overall efficiency and viability:-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377