The Indraprastha Gas (IGL) inked a memorandum of understanding with the 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 agreement was signed as part of extension of SATAT initiative of the government under synchronisation scheme.
The Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) Scheme envisages setting up of 5,000 CBG plants by 2023-24 with production target of 15 million tpa, 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 will provide a designated area at the identified site in Hastsal in west zone to IGL for setting up biogas plant and CBG station.
SDMC will also be providing assured regular supply of segregated biodegradable waste (approximately 100 tpd) to IGL for running the proposed CBG plant.
The expected production of CBG from this plant is expected to be approximately 4,000 kg per day. However, this volume of CBG generated would not be sufficient to cater to expected vehicular demand under CNG.
Therefore, an Integrated CBG station will be established to cater to CNG demand of general public as well as captive demand for SDMC vehicles. The residual bio-manure/organic slurry will be further value addition and will be sold in the market.
This MoU will 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 burning of agriculture residues, remunerative income to farmers, employment generation, effective waste management, etc.
The initiative is also in line with the goals of Atmanirbhar Bharat, Swach Bharat Mission and boosting the MSME sector.
