WATCH: In Punjab’s Ferozepur, a biomass plant generates electricity with paddy stubble

Amid increasing concerns over air pollution stemming from the stubble burning practice in northwest India, a biomass power plant in Punjab’s Ferozepur has managed to generate electricity using paddy stubble. According to officials at the plant, the biomass power facility uses 600 tons of paddy stubble per day, which equates to around 2 -2.5 lakh tons of stubble per year. The initiative is being deemed favourable for farmers as well, since they get to sell their paddy to such biomass facilities, thus generating income.

Satish Bedi, the general manager (commercial) at the Sukhbir Agro Energy Limited, told the ANI news agency, “The power plant’s capacity is 18 MW per hr, it is stubble based and uses 600 tons of stubble in a day and around 2-2.25 lakh tons of stubble in a year.”