Bioenergy boost: 132 CBG plants operational nationwide; output touches 920 tonnes per day

India has acceptable up 132 Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) plants with a combined accumulation capableness of 920 tonnes perday, with much capableness being added nether the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) initiative, Union petroleum and earthy state curate Hardeep Singh Puri said connected X.In a societal media post, the curate said the CBG programme is helping person workplace and integrated discarded into cleanable substance portion supporting agrarian incomes and lowering emissions. “What was erstwhile discarded is present powering progress. India has 132 Compressed Bio Gas plants producing 920 TPD today, with much capableness coming up nether SATAT,” Puri wrote.

SATAT was launched connected October 1, 2018, with the nonsubjective of creating an ecosystem for producing CBG from discarded and biomass sources crossed the country. Under the initiative, lipid and state selling companies specified arsenic IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, GAIL and IGL person invited expressions of involvement from entrepreneurs to procure CBG for marketing, according to quality bureau ANI.Separately, the curate besides highlighted caller steps taken to boost India’s home vigor production. Puri said that successful December 2025, India offered 50 caller exploration and accumulation blocks covering oil, state and ember furniture methane assets, describing it arsenic a important measurement towards strengthening vigor security.

“We are offering 50 caller E&P blocks crossed Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP-X): 25 blocks, Discovered Small Field (DSF-IV): 55 fields crossed 9 declaration areas/blocks. Special CBM Bid Rounds 2025 and 2026: 3 blocks (2025) & 13 blocks (2026),” the curate said successful his post.Under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy, 25 blocks covering astir 1.83 lakh quadrate kilometres are connected offer, including onland, shallow water, deepwater and ultra-deepwater blocks. Puri said these blocks let exploration passim the declaration period, graded royalty rates and flexibility successful enactment programmes.The Discovered Small Field Bid Round-IV includes 55 discoveries crossed 9 declaration areas, with incentives specified arsenic zero royalty for the archetypal 7 years successful deepwater areas and relaxed eligibility norms. Similar incentives use to coal-bed methane rounds, including pricing state and outgo reimbursement for mandated drilling successful the 2026 round, arsenic per ANI.Puri besides said the Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Amendment Act, 2025 and the PNG Rules 2025 person introduced a unified regulatory model to amended easiness of doing concern successful the sector.