Around six bio compressed natural gas (CNG) plants and more than 11,100 small biogas plants have been commissioned till July 2023 under National Bioenergy Programme (NBP).
It includes three bio-CNG plants in Maharashtra, one each in Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh
Meanwhile, 30 small bio gas plants are commissioned in Andhra Pradesh, 9 in Bihar, 118 in Chhattisgarh, 11 in Goa, 224 in Gujarat, 43 in Haryana, 2,488 in Karnataka, 683 in Kerala, 2,083 in Madhya Pradesh, 4,167 in Maharashtra, 96 in Odisha, 835 in Punjab, 20 in Rajasthan, 46 in Tamil Nadu, 126 in Uttar Pradesh and 164 in Uttarakhand.
The NBP promotes the utilisation of Surplus agricultural residue, agro based industrial residue, forest residue, industrial wood waste, energy plantation based biomass for energy generation.
In November 2022, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy initiated NBP for providing central financial assistance for setting up of bio energy plants with investment outlay of Rs 17.15 billion. The programme would be implemented in two phases. The first phase entails an investment of Rs 8.58 billion.