Wednesday, August 30, 2006 15:47 IST <\/p>\n
Ministry of Non Conventional Energy Sources <\/p>\n
POTENTIAL FOR POWER GENERATION OF 15000 MW THROUGH COGENERATION <\/p>\n
SHRI MUTTEMWAR RELEASES NMP FOR DEVELOPMENT OF WASTE TO ENERGY
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\nThe Minister of Non-Conventional Energy Sources Shri Vilas Muttemwar has informed that there is a potential for power generation of about 15000 MW through co-generation in various core industries including pulp and paper industry, breweries, textile mills, rice mills, solvent extraction units etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Inaugurating the National Workshop on Promotion of Co-generation\/Captive Power Plants in Pulp and Paper Mills, organized by his Ministry here today, Shri Muttemwar said that the waste generated by rapid industrialization can be utilized for generating power through waste-to-energy conversion technologies. This can address the challenge of waste disposal and Green House Gas (GHG) emission besides making the industry self-dependent for power. Shri Muttemwar explained the imperative to encourage greater use of renewable energy and to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in the backdrop of crude oil prices crossing $75\/barrel and coal prices doubling in international market in recent years. <\/p>\n
The Minister emphasized the importance of such projects in the paper and pulp sector, which is one of the energy intensive and highly polluting sector. He underlined the fact that compared to average fuel consumption per unit output by various industries in India, this sector consumes twice the amount of fuels. He added that paper industry is eminently suited for power co-generation as 75-85% of energy is required for process heat and 15-25% as electrical power. Further, large quantity of wastewater generated in pulp and paper industry can be used for generating biogas through biomethanation of the effluents, which in turn can be utilized for production of thermal energy electricity. <\/p>\n
Shri Muttemwar also informed that his Ministry is implementing various programmes\/schemes for installation of co-generation projects based on biomass and energy recovery from industrial waste. Financial assistance is extended to encourage setting up of such projects, which in addition to providing energy & helping in creative disposal of waste, also helps to cut down transmission and distribution losses. <\/p>\n
On this occasion, Shri Muttemwar released the National Master Plan (NMP) for Development of Waste-to-Energy prepared by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources under the UNDP\/GEF assisted project on High Rate Biomethanation Processes. He said that the NMP provides a framework for waste-to-energy programme for the country by covering all the waste streams from urban and industrial sector. The primary objective of NMP is to catalyze additional decentralized power generation capacity through projects for energy recovery from urban and industrial wastes in a cost-effective manner by deployment of technologies that are suitable to the Indian conditions. The NMP is expected to serve as a Road Map for planning and implementation of projects in the urban and industrial sectors, in a phased manner over the next decade. <\/p>\n
The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has organized the one-day workshop in association with Cogeneration Association of India and Indian Agro & Recycled Paper Mills Association to discuss various issues including Policy & Financing, Technology Configurations & Case Studies and Action Plan for promotion of Cogen\/Captive Power Plants at Pulp & Paper Mills. The Workshop was attended by representatives of industry from all over the country along with State Nodal Agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}