India launches review to stimulate investment in biomass-to-power

In India, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said that it would commence a formal review of biomass-to-power development constraints and identify new sites for 5-10 MW biomass power projects. The review was prompted after the ministry determined that India has only 656 MW of power from biomass with 536 MW under construction, despite an available pool of 150 million recoverable tons of biomass for power generation. Typical yields of 1 MW per 10,000 tons of biomass give India the potential to produce 15,000 MW from biomass.

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