The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) has issued Show Cause Notices to 06 coal-based Thermal Power Plants (TPPs) located within a radius of 300 km of Delhi for non-compliance with the mandatory provisions relating to co-firing of pellets or briquettes
The focus should be on paddy straw utilization for such co-firing. Co-firing is an option for converting biomass to electricity by adding biomass as a partial substitute fuel in coal boilers.
New Delhi [India], October 3 (ANI): An inter-ministerial meeting to review the progress of biomass co-firing in thermal power plants was held in New Delhi today. The meeting was co-chaired by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav and Union Minister for Pow