India on track to meet 3% compressed biogas blending target for current financial year: officials

The authorities is connected way to conscionable to conscionable its people of blending 3% compressed biogas (CBG) - with CNG and home piped earthy state – for the existent fiscal year, with the blending percent having already astir doubled to astir 2% astatine present, officials privy of the improvement told The Hindu.

They further stated that, with much CBG plants nether varied stages of construction, this would supply a further fillip towards achieving the target.

India’s contiguous depletion of earthy state for home PNG and CNG successful transport combined is astir 34-35 cardinal metric modular cubic metre per time (MMSCMD).

“In April, CBG income were astir 0.66 mmscmd and astir 0.63 mmscmd successful May,” they stated, explaining that astatine the contiguous complaint of depletion they magnitude to astir 2% of blending.

Following recommendations of the National Biofuel Coordination Committee (NBCC), India acceptable itself a people of blending 1% CBG - into CNG and home PNG – successful the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26, 3% successful FY 2026-27, 4% and 5% successful the consequent fiscal years respectively.

More plants coming up

According to the Petroleum Ministry’s Gobardhan portal, operation of 324 CBG/bio-CNG plants are nether progress, and 1,261 plants are yet to commencement construction.

Majority of the projects under-construction are located successful Uttar Pradesh (80), followed by Maharashtra (46), Gujarat (35) and Karnataka (25).

Two-hundred 10 plants person been already commissioned.

According to Suresh N.S., Senior Research Scientist of the Strategic Initiatives Group astatine the Delhi-based think-tank CSTEP, caller geopolitical developments, arsenic the struggle successful West Asia, underscore the urgency of strengthening India’s home vigor information and reducing dependence connected imported fuels.

“Blending targets indispensable beryllium scaled up progressively to trim imports, beforehand discarded utilisation, mitigate methane emissions, and debar harvest residue burning,” helium told The Hindu.

Underlining imperatives to assistance spur CBG uptake, the elder probe scientist, among different things, pointed to a imaginable robust feedstock assurance mechanics to guarantee reliable and sustainable proviso of feedstocks and production-linked incentives to enactment operational and attraction costs.