Green Marvel: Haryana’s 240 TPD Plant Makes Pollution Profitable

Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi inaugurated Haryana’s landmark 240-TPD biomass pellet plant in Rewari this week. The facility will process paddy straw, mustard straw, and cotton stalks—a regionally abundant crop residue—transforming farm waste into biomass pellets for co-firing with coal in thermal power plants. The initiative tackles rampant seasonal stubble burning and related air pollution, converting a persistent environmental challenge into valuable clean energy while supporting the government’s mandatory biomass co-firing policy for thermal plants.

 

This new plant improves local air quality and carbon emissions, stimulates economic opportunities for farmers via a buyback program, and strengthens job creation throughout rural Haryana. The state now backs more than 26 active waste-to-energy projects, and the plant reinforces Haryana’s accelerating transition towards green energy leadership.

 

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Sources : Mercom India, KNN India, PIB Press Release, Adda247, BioEnergy Times.