Originally published December 29 2005
Indian biomass plant receives certification from UN for emissions reduction
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Kalpataru Energy Venture, a Ganganagar-based biomass power project, is the first such project in India that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has certified for emissions reductions.
A Ganganagar-based biomass power project has got certified emission reductions (CERs) from a UN body.
Kalpataru Energy Venture, a Ganganagar-based biomass power Project, has become one of the first three projects in the world and the first in India to which the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has approved issuance of such reductions.
The certified emission reductions (CERs) issued by the UNFCCC, part of the clean development mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, to a green project can be acquired by an investing company (from the developed nation) to meet its emission reduction commitments at home.
India acceded to the Kyoto Protocol in August 2002, thereby opening up CDM project financing opportunities.
The firm is Rajasthan's first biomass-based independent power producer with a 7.8 Mw power plant in Padampur, Ganganagar, generating power using mustard crop residue.
It is the biomass division of Ahmedabad-based Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd.
The company set up the plant in Padampur in September 2003, manufacturing power using renewable resources such as mustard crop residue and cotton sticks.
The project has been in association with SenterNovem, Netherlands.
The company has put logistics in place, enabling it to collect over 40,000 tonnes of renewable resources last year.
It has entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) and a power wheeling agreement with the Rajasthan Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (RVPN) and three distribution companies of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Ajmer based on the Rajasthan state policy of non-conventional energy.
It is derived from numerous sources, including by-products of timber, crops, raw material from the forest, major parts of household waste and wood.
Biomass does not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as it absorbs the same amount of carbon in growing as it releases when consumed as a fuel.
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