The questions we actually get asked.

Yes, but only if it is designed that way from the start. A plant sized purely on press mud earns for 165 days and carries its capital cost for 365 — which is the commonest reason mill-attached projects miss their own business case. We size against year-round availability and fill the off-season with napier grass and crop residue from your own command area, using the grower relationships you already have.

That is a commercial question rather than a technical one, and it should be answered with your numbers. Compare what press mud earns you today against what it earns as feedstock plus the fertiliser that returns to your growers. If the current arrangement is better, we will say so.

Boiler gas is worth the coal or bagasse it displaces — fuel value. The same gas scrubbed to SATAT purity and bottled sells as transport fuel into a mandated blending obligation. The digester does not change; the difference is the purification and bottling island on the end of it, and the difference in what the gas earns is not marginal.

For an agro-industrial plant, usually within the existing premises — the feedstock arrives at one yard and the pre-treatment line is light. Municipal plants need materially more room because of the tipping floor and separation equipment.

Not dead, but harder and more expensive, and you should hear that plainly. Mixed waste can be recovered mechanically, but the organic fraction arrives degraded, the inert load punishes every pump in the plant, and the fertiliser revenue line may disappear because the manure cannot pass contamination limits. Segregation at source is a municipal commitment rather than an engineering one, and the project economics turn on it. We would rather engineer for a worse feed than your tender promises than discover the gap at commissioning.

A long-term waste supply agreement with a specification attached and rejection rights at the tipping floor. Tonnage alone is not enough — the plant is sized on the segregated wet fraction, so the concession has to define what arrives, not just how much.

Municipal organic waste projects sit inside GOBARdhan and the national waste-to-energy framework, with SATAT as the offtake route for the gas. Which instruments a specific project can actually draw on depends on the state, the urban local body and the ownership structure — we map that in the DPR rather than presenting a maximal list as though every line applied.

It depends on the crop, the moisture and the distance, and it is settled on site when we weigh and inspect rather than quoted blind on a website. Payment is by the weighbridge slip, directly into your account, with no intermediary taking a cut.

We do. Transport from your field to the plant is our responsibility and our cost. That is the whole point — clearing residue currently costs you money, which is precisely why it gets burnt.

No, and we would rather be straight about that. It is sold, priced to be genuinely affordable against local alternatives. A giveaway would not survive the first bad year; a product that stands on its own price will.

That is the arrangement we prefer. Aggregating through farmer producer organisations keeps the margin inside the catchment instead of with an intermediary, and it makes the supply relationship durable rather than transactional.

Contracted. Oil marketing companies purchase CBG at a notified price under SATAT, and a blending obligation on gas distributors is in force and rising in steps. The demand side of this sector is unusually secure; the constraint is entirely on the build side.

Because the failures have been operational, not financial. Feedstock assumed rather than proven; plants built around a single input; purification underspecified so hydrogen sulphide destroys equipment; and output quietly degrading after commissioning because nobody owns the number. Capital has been available throughout.

IIT (BHU) Varanasi evaluated the detailed project report technically and financially and found it SATAT and MNRE compliant and feasible. SSS NIBE Kapurthala independently evaluated the plant design and found it feasible and recommended. Both predate construction.

Because the research plant has not commissioned yet, and we will not publish modelled figures dressed as measurements. Anything not yet counted stays visibly marked until first-cycle reporting. An empty row is more useful to you than a flattering estimate.

Nothing on this site is a return projection, and you should be wary of any developer whose website carries one. Returns depend on feedstock cost, capacity, the model and the site. They are derived in the DPR from your project's own numbers.

Compressed biomethane: biogas from decomposing organic matter, cleaned until it is chemically almost the same gas that comes out of a fossil well, then compressed into cylinders and used exactly as fossil CNG is.

Commercially, no. CBG — Compressed Bio-Gas — is the term used in Indian policy including SATAT. BioCNG is the common commercial name. Biomethane is the scientific term, and RNG is the North American one.

It is, and that is the point. Left alone, the residue rots and releases methane, which warms roughly 28 times as much as carbon dioxide. Capturing that methane and burning it is a large net improvement — and it displaces fossil gas at the same time, so the case counts on both sides of the ledger.

The 10 TPD research plant at Sangola is under construction and scheduled to commission on 1 March 2027. It was built to be studied rather than to hit a payback date, and it will publish what it measures.