Lok Sabha Question No. 1296 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-09
Subject: Generation of Clean Electricity
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: Dulal Chandra Goswami

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1296 ANSWERED ON 09.02.2023

## GENERATION OF CLEAN ELECTRICITY

†1296. SHRI DULAL CHANDRA GOSWAMI:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Union Government is contemplating/has contemplated the possibility of generation of clean electricity from methane and Carbon-dioxide gas as a step towards green electricity;
- (b) if so, the names of the places where such plants have been set up or likely to be set up; and
- (c) whether such plants are working properly and if so, the details thereof?

## A N S W E R

THE MINISTER OF POWER AND NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY

(SHRI R.K. SINGH)

(a) & (b) : The  Ministry  of  New  and  Renewable  Energy  has  notified  the  National Bioenergy  Programme  for  a  period  01.04.2021  to  31.03.2026  with  an  outlay  of  Rs.858 crore  under  Phase-I.  The  National  Bioenergy  Programme  comprises  the  following  subschemes:

- i. Waste to Energy Programme
- ii. Biomass Programme
- iii. Biogas Programme

Waste  to  Energy  Programme  and  Biogas  Programme,  inter-alia,  supports  setting  up  of plants  for  generation  of  electricity  based  on  biogas.    Biogas  is  a  mixture  of  gases, primarily methane and carbon-dioxide.

State-wise list  of  places  where  such  plants  have  been  set  up  are  given  at Annexure.

- (c) : The  technologies  for  the  generation  of  electricity  from  Biogas  are  well established and with sustained supply of requisite quality feedstock and proper operation & maintenance on regular basis, these plants can run properly and efficiently.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) & (b) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1296 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 09.02.2023

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## State-wise details of installed capacity of Bio-gas to Power Projects set up in the country, as on 31.12.2022:

|   Sl. No. | States                  | No. of projects   | Districts where in the projects are located in the State                                                                 |
|-----------|-------------------------|-------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh          | 12                | East Godavari, Krishna West Godavari Vizianagaram, isakhapatnam                                                          |
|         2 | Chhattisgarh            | 1                 | Rajnandgaon                                                                                                              |
|         3 | Gujarat                 | 10                | Sabarkantha Rajkot Navangapura Bharuch Surat Ahmedabad                                                                   |
|         4 | Haryana                 | 3                 | Kutch Palwal Panipat Jind                                                                                                |
|         5 | Karnataka               | 5                 | Haveri Belgaum Mandya Mysore                                                                                             |
|         6 | Madhya Pradesh          | 4                 | Raisen                                                                                                                   |
|         7 | Maharashtra             | 16                | Jabalpur Nanded Aurangabad Sangli Jalgaon Solapur Dhule Solapur Sangli Ahmednagar                                        |
|         8 | Punjab                  | 7                 | Raigad Patiala Muktsar Pathankot Ludhiana Fazilka                                                                        |
|         9 | Rajasthan               | 1                 | Alwar                                                                                                                    |
|        10 | Tamil Nadu              | 6                 | Salem Namakkal Chennai Tiruchirapalli Cuddalore                                                                          |
|        11 | Telangana               | 4                 | Khammam Nalgonda Nizamabad Warangal                                                                                      |
|        12 | Uttar Pradesh           | 26                | Basti Ghaziabad Rampur Lakhimpur Kheri Moradabad Muzaffarnagar Faizabad Gorakhpur Saharanpur Bijnor Bulandshahar Sitapur |
|        13 | Uttarakhand Grand Total | 2 97              | Lucknow Udhamsingh Nagar                                                                                                 |

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