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IBA’s commitment towards leapfrogging the prospect in the biogas/bio-CNG indutry

- Period: April - June, 2022

IBA makes industry recommendations to the Standing Committee, Lok Sabha

In July, a meeting of the Standing Committee on “Petroleum and Natural Gas” is scheduled. The purpose of the meeting is to examine the implementation of CBG (under the SATAT scheme), and industry stakeholders' thoughts and proposals will be heard. As a precursor to the meeting, IBA has submitted a note to the committee seeking desired Ministerial help for a variety of issues including, tax harmonization, umbrella permit and clearances, continuation of subsidy, fair pricing, and marketing assistance for CBG and organic manure, easy project financing, and a robust feedstock supply chain ecosystem. In addition, it has also been suggested that each of these recommendations be implemented into action within a specific time frame , such as "short term" (less than a year), "mid-term" (one to two years), and "longterm" (more than 2 years).

IBA organizes and participates in a series of webinars:

On June 11, 2022, IBA along with Renewx India organized a seminar on "Bio-Energy: a must for the emerging India energy market". The seminar, which was held at HITEX, Hyderabad, centred on the overall development and sustainability of the biogas in India along with an opportunity to comprehend and enter the fast-growing Bioenergy market in India. Speakers from IBA, Armatec-FTS, PRESPL, CSIR, and ABPL presented in the session.

Furthermore, continuing with its series of webinars, IBA along with Smart Innovation Norway organized a virtual webinar, “Harnessing the bio-energy opportunities India” on June 15, 2022. The webinar was subscribed by over 250 participants, and it enabled industry stakeholders, especially global partic-

ipants, to gain a better understanding of the existing Indian ecosystem for biogas/ bio-CNG. Mr. M.P. Singh, Director, PEDA; Mr. Bijay Kumar, General Manager, IOCL; Dr. A. R. Shukla, President, IBA; Mr. Frank Hofmann, International Affairs, GBA; and Mr. Helge Tryti, Director-South Asia, Innovation Norway were all present to speak during the two-hour webinar.

The webinar emphasized on understanding the prevalent scenario of the Indian CBG industry, the role of different PSUs in providing needful support to propel the SATAT scheme, and understanding the growth drivers of the German and Norwegian markets through their success stories. Germany is the leader in the biogas industry, having established nearly 10,000 commercial large scale biogas plants.

IBA's persistent request for the CBG purchase price to be "indexed” pays off

In its latest letter to the relevant ministry (MoPNG), IBA recommended for price parity of CBG to its close substitute fuels by making "per unit of delivered calorific value/ Energy Value" the basis for deciding the selling price of a given fuel. IBA, on behalf of the stakeholders of the Biogas industry, requested the following to be incorporated on an immediate basis:

1. Appropriately index CBG

Biogas Magazine | Edition 20 | 9 prices with the contemporary CNG retail prices. each event has been bigger than the last.

2. Also, based on the above indexing, a frequency needs to be set, preferably on a half-yearly or annual basis, for revising the CBG prices.

IBA's persistent efforts to get the much-needed boost for the "CBG industry" paid off when IOCL recently (in May 2022) announced that the CBG would be linked to the current retail selling price (RSP) of CNG.

Bio-Energy Pavilion, 2022

The Indian Biogas Association is glad to announce that the "Bio-Energy Pavilion 2022" will be at the Renewable Energy India Expo, India Expo Mart in Greater Noida on This time around, the pavilion and conference are intended to raise awareness about the Bio-Energy sector and bring together corporates, entrepreneurs, academics, social organizations, lending institutions, and investors.

This will increase the sector's visibility. The intended goal is to improve scientific waste management practices, which are already supported by government programs like Swachh Bharat, Sustainable Alternative Technology for Affordable Transportation (SATAT), Solid Waste Management, Ethanol-Blending program, Compost Promotion scheme, etc.