{"id":46620,"date":"2025-07-01T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=46620"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:54:21","slug":"mnre-biomass-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-07-2025\/mnre-biomass-guidelines","title":{"rendered":"MNRE Revises Biomass Guidelines to Boost Bio Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/ Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued revised guidelines for the Biomass Programme under <strong>Phase-I of the National Bioenergy Programme<\/strong>, applicable for the period <strong>FY 2021\u201322 to 2025\u201326.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is Biomass?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Biomass refers to organic material derived from plants and animals, and it includes: <strong>forestry waste, residue from agricultural operation, processed waste from industry, municipal\/urban solid waste.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annual Biomass production in the Country is around <strong>750 MMT,<\/strong> out of which <strong>228 MMT <\/strong>is surplus Biomass.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Features of the Revised Guidelines<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Simplified Procedures:<\/strong> Reduced paperwork and approval hurdles, especially benefiting MSMEs.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Eased documentation requirements for briquette\/pellet manufacturing units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Technological Integration: <\/strong>Promotes <strong>IoT-based monitoring <\/strong>or quarterly data submission, replacing costly SCADA systems.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensures digital accountability while reducing operational costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Market Flexibility: <\/strong>Replaces the earlier two-year contract requirement with a general sale agreement, allowing businesses to adjust to market demand dynamically.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Performance-Based Subsidies: <\/strong>Under Central Financial Assistance (CFA), Projects operating at \u226580% efficiency get full subsidy.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Projects below 80% get subsidy on a pro-rata basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rationalized Inspection Criteria: <\/strong>Performance inspection can now be done within <strong>18 months<\/strong> of either commissioning or In-principle approval.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reduced operational requirement from <strong>three days (16 hrs\/day)<\/strong> to one 10-hour stretch to verify performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Regional Coordination:<\/strong> Biomass pellet producers in <strong>Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, and NCR districts of Rajasthan &amp; Uttar Pradesh <\/strong>can choose between MNRE or CPCB support schemes, depending on benefits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebecf0\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>National Bioenergy Programme (NBP)<\/strong><br>&#8211; <strong>The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy<\/strong> notified the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/19-11-2022\/national-bio-energy-programme\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/19-11-2022\/national-bio-energy-programme\"><strong>National Bioenergy Programme (NBP)<\/strong><\/a> for the period of <strong>FY 2021-22 to 2025-26 in 2022.<\/strong><br>&#8211; The programme has been recommended for implementation in <strong>two phases<\/strong> with a total budget outlay of Rs 1715 Crore and a budget outlay of <strong>Rs 858 Crore<\/strong> has been allocated for the <strong>Phase-1<\/strong>.<br>&#8211; The National Bioenergy Programme will comprises of the <strong>following sub-schemes:<\/strong><br>1. <strong>Waste to Energy Programme<\/strong> to support setting up of large Biogas, BioCNG and Power plants (excluding MSW to Power projects).<br>2. <strong>Biomass Programme<\/strong> (Scheme to Support Manufacturing of Briquettes &amp; Pellets and Promotion of Biomass (non-bagasse) based cogeneration in Industries) to support setting up of pellets and briquettes for use in power generation and non-bagasse based power generation projects.<br>3. <strong>Biogas Programme<\/strong> to support setting up of family and medium size Biogas in rural areas.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2140327#:~:text=The%20amended%20guidelines%20rules%20allow%20flexible%20selling,component%20has%\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued revised guidelines for the Biomass Programme under Phase-I of the National Bioenergy Programme, applicable for the period FY 2021\u201322 to 2025\u201326.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is Biomass?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Biomass refers to organic material derived from plants and animals, and it includes: forestry waste, residue from agricultural operation, processed waste from industry, municipal\/urban solid waste.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Annual Biomass production in the Country is around 750 MMT, out of which 228 MMT is surplus Biomass.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-07-2025\/mnre-biomass-guidelines\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read\u00a0More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46681,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46620\/revisions\/46681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}