Govt sticking to target of 5k CBG plants by '24-25

 

India has become the fast-growing economy in the world and their energy consumption is at its peak. According to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had found out that, India had a reserve of 763 million metric tons of crude oil and 1,488 billion cubic meters of natural gas. Countries import are nearly 77% of crude oil and 50% of natural gas requirements and the country had planned to reduce their import by 10%. As India going to be a sustainable country, they more focus on waste and biomass energy where cattle dung, solid waste and sewage treatment plants which produce biogas through anaerobic decomposition. The gas is processed to remove hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide, water vapors to compressed biogas which has more than 90% of lead content. CBG has similar properties as CNG and it also has calorific value, which can be utilized as a green renewable automobile fuel. So, it will replace CNG in automobiles and all other areas.

India had announced the launch of 200 small scale compressed biogas (CBG) projects which will help in the growth of states and also it will provide higher commercial rates to the country. Not only that after the launch of CBG, country will have separate measures for CBG and also it will act as a central scheme to push country to a CBG producers and can cut down pollution. They also claimed that they will step up 5000 commercial CBG plants in India by 2024-2025 under the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transport (SATAT) scheme. In 2008, SATAT had started their vision by incentivizing the production of CBG plants in India by natural substances including food waste, biomass sources and so on. But they were not able to attain their vision due to some issues, they were only able produce 46 CBG plants till date. The time has come, and they are able achieve their vision for that they had tied up with 100 retail outlets worldwide. The government will also take preventive and effective steps to implement the CBG plant and also, they will offtake guarantee on CBG and bio- manure and also low-cost financing, fiscal plans and also accounting systems. The Union territory administration in Ladakh also has plans to set up CBG plants and community cluster-based biogas plants. Oil and Gas markets had signed long term agreement for procuring CBG from them after the plants started working. They are planning to work under GOBARdhan (Galvanizing Organic Bio-Argo Resources Dhan) scheme to produce 200 CBG plants. The scheme aims at converting cattle dung and solid waste from farms and house into compost, biogas and bio-compressed natural gas (CNG). CBG comes under white category status where they are clustered with non-polluting industries because of the white category label they are subjected from getting green clearance. They are planning to charge 54 per kg which was raised in June 2022.

By starting this CBG production, it will reduce the import of crude oil and natural gas and also it will reduce the emission of pollutants into the environment as CBG is a natural product with zero percent effluent. By using CBG, we can control the climatic changes which are currently occurring in the world. It also lowers pollution and carbon emission. It will also provide additional resources to farmers.