NEW DELHI: NTPC will harvest five million tonne of biomass pellets made from farm stubble for fuelling its power stations, giving farmers the option to make extra money by selling crop residue instead of burning them and choking the National Capital Region as well as parts of four other states every winter.
\nThe state-run generation utility has sought expression of interest for procuring the pellets just when reports of sporadic crop burning has started coming in form parts Punjab, which has been identified along with Haryana and western UP, as major contributors to the winter smog in the NCR.
\nCompany sources said ash generated from burning of agro residue-based fuel in power plants get absorbed in electrostatic precipitators and does not cause air pollution. Also, the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted from their combustion is absorbed in the next crop cycle by photosynthesis, which does not increase the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
\nNo wonder Punjab and Haryana will get preference in the procurement process, while the pellets will be used in 17 of NTPC\u2019s large power stations. These will include the Dadri plant in UP, which has a bearing on the air quality on the NCR. Last year, NTPC used 7,000 tonne of pellets at the plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: NTPC will harvest five million tonne of biomass pellets made from farm stubble for fuelling its power stations, giving farmers the option to make extra money by selling crop residue instead of burning them and choking the National Capital Region as well as parts of four other states every winter. The state-run generation utility has sought expression of interest for procuring the pellets just when reports of sporadic crop burning has started coming in form parts Punjab, which has been identified along with Haryana and western UP, as major contributors to the winter smog in the NCR. Company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}