Waste to Energy - Overview

The depleting sources of fossil fuels, sharp increase in power tariffs to industrialists due to heavy subsidies to Agriculture, very high T&D losses, decrease in reliability of power required, leads one to think of the alternative soco-economic, efficient, environment friendly and reliable sources of energies.

The Power crises in Maharashtra is increasing day by day with a peak demand shortfall of 2000 MW. Maharashtra is having a total installed capacity of 15085 MW (Including Central sector share) of centralized power plants and 623 MW of decentralized non-conventional power plants. Still there is a large potential in the non-conventional energy sources sector which can be tapped, out of which biomass is one of the major sources of energy. Maharashtra is having agricultural / agro -industrial surplus biomass with a potential of about 781 MW distributed through the state. This distributed potential can be harnessed to meet increasing power demand and to improve the techno-economic scenario.