The MoU will help reduce in the burning of agriculture residues, remunerative income to farmers
Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to establish waste to energy plant in Delhi to convert municipal solid waste into Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) for use as fuel for running vehicles. The MoU was signed in the presence of Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs, Anil Baijal, Lt Governor, Delhi, Rameswar Teli, Union Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Labour & Employment, Tarun Kapoor, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Mukesh Suryan, Mayor, SDMC, Gyanesh Bharti, Commissioner, SDMC, AK Jana, MD, IGL, Amit Garg, Director (Commercial) and other senior officials from the ministry, SDMC and IGL.
The agreement was signed as a part of the extension of SATAT initiative of the government under a synchronisation scheme. The Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) scheme envisages the setting up of 5000 CBG plants by 2023-24 with a production target of 15 MMTPA, facilitating the creation of new employment opportunities and enhancing farmers’ income. By using municipal solid waste as input, this initiative involves a multi-pronged approach to reduce municipal waste on one hand and produce clean energy on the other in a sustainable manner.
As a part of the MoU, SDMC shall provide a designated area at the identified site in Hastsal in West Zone to IGL for setting up biogas plant and CBG Station. SDMC shall also be providing an assured regular supply of segregated biodegradable waste (approx. 100 TPD) to IGL for running the proposed CBG plant.
The expected production of CBG from this plant is expected to be approx. 4000 kg per day. However, this volume of CBG generated would not be sufficient to cater to expected vehicular demand under CNG. The residual bio-manure/organic slurry will be further value addition and shall be sold in the market.
The MoU shall be another step towards developing an ecosystem in the country for the production of CBG from various waste and biomass sources leading to multiple benefits like reduction of natural gas imports, reduction of GHG emission, reduction in the burning of agriculture residues, remunerative income to farmers, employment generation, effective waste management etc. The initiative is also in line with the goals of Atma Nirbhar Bharat, Swach Bharat Mission and boosting MSME sector.
