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Revised Guidelines for Waste-to-Energy Projects

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July 01, 2025

Prelims: Current events of national and international importance | Environment

Why in news?

Recently the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) issued the Revised Guidelines under the National Bioenergy Programme.

  • National Bioenergy Programme – It is launched by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
  • ObjectivesTo promote the use of bioenergy technologies for clean energy generation.
  • It supports efficient use of biomass, biogas and industrial/agricultural waste for energy production.
  • It contributes to India’s Net-Zero Emissions target by 2070.
  • Sub schemes – It includes sub-schemes for:
    • Waste to Energy (WtE)
    • Biogas Programme
    • Biomass Programme
  • Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Project – It facilities to convert urban, industrial, agricultural, and municipal waste into useful energy such as biogas, compressed biogas (CBG), or electricity.

Revised Guidelines

  • MNRE announced to make the ecosystem efficient, transparent, and performance-driven.
  • It focuses on reducing paperwork and easing approval processes.
  • Central Financial Assistance (CFA) structureCFA is now released in two stages,
  • 50% on obtaining Consent to Operate from State Pollution Control Board (with bank guarantee).
  • Remaining 50% after achieving 80% of rated capacity or maximum eligible capacity.
  • Pro-rata CFA – It is available for plants performing between 50-80% of capacity.
  • No CFA for plants with less than 50% plant load factor.
  • Time flexibility for claiming CFA Developers can claim CFA within 18 months from the date of commissioning, or date of in-principal CFA approval, whichever is later.

Reference

DD News| Revised Guidelines for Waste-to-Energy Projects

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