Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) plans to establish more than fifty compressed biogas (CBG) plants within the next two years, with an estimated cost exceeding ₹5,000 crore. CBG has versatile applications across automotive, industrial, and commercial sectors.
RIL has initiated the tendering process for fifty compressed biogas plants to be constructed within the next two years and will soon issue a tender for the remaining plants, increasing the total number of CBG plants from 100 to 106.
Each plant will have a feedstock processing capacity ranging from 250 to 500 tons per day, with CBG production expected to be between ten to twenty tons per day. RIL’s internal team will manage the sourcing of feedstock for these plants, and the company has engaged in discussions with multiple sugar mills to procure sugarcane press mud and other feedstock for CBG production.
RIL has already established two CBG demonstration units at its refinery facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and has successfully commissioned the first commercial-scale CBG plant in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. Through these CBG units, RIL aims to utilize 5.5 million tons of agro-residue and organic waste, thereby mitigating nearly two million tons of carbon emissions annually and producing 2.5 million tonnes of organic manure.
As reported by PROJECTS TODAY, the initiative will reduce approximately 0.7 million tons per annum of imported LNG. Furthermore, these CBG units will facilitate the expansion of CBG and bio-CNG retailing at Jio-BP fuel retail outlets in the near future.
