Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

Grid interactive biomass power (includes agro-based industrial residue, wood produced in energy plantations or recovered from wild bushes/weeds, wood waste produced in industrial operations, crop agro residues) and bagasse cogeneration in sugar mills.

12th Five Year Plan

To promote:

• Biomass power with minimum steam pressure configuration of 60 bar and above.

• Cogeneration projects for surplus power generation from bagasse in private/cooperative/public sector sugar mills with minimum steam pressure configuration of 40 bar and above.

• Bagasse cogeneration projects for surplus power generation in cooperative/public sector sugar mills with minimum steam pressure of 60 bar and above.

All registered financial Institutions, development/investment corporations; nationalized/private banks, central and state cooperative banks, state/public sector leasing and financing corporations.

Promoters include individual/independent registered companies, joint sector/public sector companies/state agencies and private and public sector investors having technical and managerial capabilities for implementing biomass power/bagasse cogeneration projects on BOOT/BOLT or IPP basis, or state govt. undertakings or sate govt. supported joint venture companies/SPV companies.

For bagasse cogeneration projectsin cooperative/public sector sugar mills, boiler up-gradation in existing cooperative sugar mills and BOOT/BOLT model through state govt.

• 50% of CFA after financial closure and order placement for major equipment and inspection of the project by designated agency such as State Nodal Agencies/Financial Institutions/National Productivity Council/National Sugar Institute Kanpur etc.

• Balance 50% after successful project commissioning as per DPR norms, and performance testing of the project (3 months project operation with at least 72 hours continuous operation at minimum 80% rated capacity).

For biomass power and bagasse cogeneration projects in private sector sugar mills, IPP based BOOT/BOLT model in Coop./public sector mills.

• CFA released in a single instalment on successful commissioning of the project and performance testing of the project (3 months project operation with at least 72 hours continuous operation at minimum 80% rated capacity).