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Bioenergy
Rethinking Biogas Strategy: Using budget support to enable supply-side reform
Dr Akanksha Jain, Research Consultant, and Dr Debajit Palit, Centre Head, Centre for Climate Change and Energy Transition, Chintan Research Foundation Compressed biogas (CBG), essentially a mixture of hydrocarbons, with methane concentrations comparable to natural […]
Policies and Programmes
MNRE clears Rs 1.4 billion additional budget for first phase of National Bioenergy Programme
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has approved an additional budget of Rs 1.4 billion for Phase I of the National Bioenergy Programme. As a part of this additional budget, Rs 375 million […]
Policies and Programmes
MNRE issues revised guidelines for Biomass Programme
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has announced key amendments to the guidelines for the Biomass Programme under Phase-I of the National Bioenergy Programme, applicable for the financial year 2021–22 to 2025–26. Under […]
Policies and Programmes
MNRE updates CFA rates for biomass pellet manufacturing units
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has updated the central financial assistance (CFA) rates for biomass pellet manufacturing units as a part of National Bioenergy Programme. The programme aims to promote the production […]
Trends
Towards Decarbonisation: India’s cogeneration and trigeneration initiatives
India has launched a number of energy efficiency initiatives in an effort to reduce its carbon impact. These inlcude implementing projects based on cogeneration and trigeneration. Over the past year, the Government of India has […]
Bioenergy
Decarbonising Generation: Biomass co-firing in coal-based TPPs can help reduce emissions
In India, most of the power is generated by coal-based thermal power plants (TPPs). Thermal-based generation gives rise to carbon emissions, sulphur oxide and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, along with suspended particulate matter, thereby polluting […]
Policies and Programmes
MNRE has notified the National Bioenergy Programme
MNRE has continued the National Bioenergy Programme for the period from 2021-22 to 2025-26. The programme has been recommended for implementation in two phases. The Phase-I of the programme has been approved with a budget […]
Policies and Programmes
MNRE rolls out its Waste to Energy Programme
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has rolled out its Waste to Energy Programme under the umbrella scheme of National Bioenergy Programme for the duration of financial year 2021-22 to 2025-26. The budget […]