OREANDA-NEWS. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has been implementing a programme to support Grid-interactive biomass power and bagasse co-generation  in sugar mills in India.   Targets of 400 megawatt biomass power projects for the 12th Plan period and 100 megawatt during the current financial year i.e. 2014-15 have been fixed by MNRE. This was stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of state (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

             

            The Minister further stated that the details of the Central Financial Assistance provided during last three years to set up  grid-connected biomass power/bagasse cogeneration projects in the States of Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh  is as follows :

(Rs. in crore)

Year

CFA Provided

2011-12

Rs.52.84

2012-13

Rs.56.25

2013-14

Rs.31.59

 

The promoters/project developer has to ensure supply of biomass for biomass based power generation projects, the Minister added.