The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has launched the Scheme to Support Promotion of Biomass-Based Cogeneration in Sugar Mills and Other Industries for promoting biomass power and bagasse cogeneration in India.
The key objective of the scheme is to utilise the available biomass resources like bagasse, rice husk, straw, cotton stalk and coconut shell for power generation.
Biomass Resources that are covered under the Scheme to Support Promotion of Biomass-Based Cogeneration are- Residues from the Agriculture industry; Crop residue; Weed; Bagasse (Fibrous residue); Wood produced in energy plantation; Wood waste produced in other industrial operation etc.
