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Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has become India’s largest bio-energy producer based on the company’s indigenously developed technology, Chairman Mukesh Ambani recently said at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM).

In North India, stubble burning is a major cause of air pollution. During the onset of winter, farmers set agricultural waste on fire to get rid of it and prepare the fields for sowing again. This causes pollution levels to rise and the air quality index to reach severe levels.

Reliance has commissioned its first commercial-scale compressed bio-gas (CBG) plant at Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh in 10 months, Ambani had informed the AGM.

It had earlier set up two demo units for CBG at Jamnagar.
Reliance now plans to rapidly scale this up to 25 CBG plants across India.

Ambani said RIL targets to establish 100 compressed bio-gas (CBG) plants in the next five years, consuming 5.5 million tonnes of agro-residue and organic waste.

The company said the move would help in mitigating nearly 2 million tonnes of carbon emissions, and producing 2.5 million tonnes of organic manure annually. Reliance expects that this would also result in a reduction of about 0.7 MMTPA (million metric tonnes per annum) of imported LNG.

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