Bowenpally’s Biogas Plant: Telangana Generates Electricity from Vegetable Waste

Source: The post is based on the article “Telangana Generates Electricity from Vegetable Waste” published in the PIB on 9th April 2023.

What is the News?

In a recent Mann Ki Baat episode, the Prime Minister praised the Bowenpally Vegetable Market and Bowenpally’s Biogas Plant for its electricity generation from vegetable waste.

About Bowenpally’s Biogas Plant

The waste generated (rotten and unsold vegetables) in the Bowenpally vegetable market and nearby yards are collected from across the city. Nearly 10 tons of waste is collected every day.

This is converted into the major source of electricity for the vegetable market and biofuel for the market’s commercial kitchen. Bio Manure is obtained, apart from the gas, as a by-product.

Benefits: a) generates employment for women and locals, b) reduce the electricity bill, c) liquid bio manure is being used as fertilizer in the farmers’ fields, d) created large-scale awareness of the use of a sustainable system to generate biofuel, and e) encourages more and more cities to take up similar projects for the transformation of urban landscape.

Significance: Department of Biotechnology announced further funding to establish five more similar plants in different market yards with varying capacities suitable for the generated market waste.