1GW Biomass + 3GW Solar clean energy projects in Northern India
Project Details
Developing biomass and solar clean energy projects in Punjab, India to offset Delhi’s severe air quality crisis partially caused by the local Punjab agricultural process of rice paddy stubble burning reversing the environmental consequences throughout the region
- The Project is being developed on a build, own, operate and transfer basis with the Project being transferred to the State of Punjab after 15 years
- The power produced will be fed directly into the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) grid
- Each plant will be located strategically near a major PSPCL electrical sub-station for interconnection of the power into the grid
- Feedstock to operate the biomass plants will be provided by the government ensuring a stable long-term reliable biomass feedstock supply to operate the biomass plants
- 3GWs of utility scale solar power generation with government backed PPA’s will provide reliable clean electricity to supply the growing power demand throughout India
Proven Technology
NGP will deploy thermo-chemical conversion processes such as gasification and thermal conversion like incineration with state-of-art emission control. Both the technologies are proven and decompose organic matter under high temperature
Base Load Energy
Biomass is a fuel that can generate baseload renewable electricity. Basis estimated availability of 20 million MT of rice straw as government guaranteed feedstock delivered to each plant allows for up to 2 GW of biomass plant operations in Punjab
Environmental Benefits
The project will reverse the environmental consequences of stubble burning, allow for a massive value creating economic opportunity to exist for Punjab farmers and will solve the rice stubble burning issue throughout Punjab, Haryana and the National Capital Region
Economic Growth
The construction/operations and the procurement, transportation and storage of paddy is expected to create over a half a million new jobs in Punjab. Substantial trickle-down employment adds to the total job count. The project will also allow for a massive value creating economic opportunity to exist for Punjab farmers as they will receive income, a tipping fee, for rice stubble collected and transported from their farm by the government which will increased farm productivity and investment in agricultural implements, labor, fertilizer and reliable energy produced by the project
Governmental Support
NGP is considered a power development priority by emerging market governments with a majority of power output contracted under long-term Governmental PPAs/FiTs
Ancillary Benefits
The project will have ancillary benefits allowing other industries to thrive because the government aims to boost availability of rice stubble feedstock with more affordable and reliable transport methods, to manufacture rice stubble briquettes for fuel and to enable local biogas, bioethanol, or bio-CNG production capability
