India, Nov. 30 -- High capital investment is also stopping small investors from entering the CBG scene

Bio-CNG, also known as Compressed Biogas (CBG), came on the Government agenda only in 2018 when the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) launched Sustainable Alternative towards affordable transportation (SATAT).

Before this, some plants had already started experimenting with making electricity from biogas and Compressed Biogas .

SATAT saw obvious advantages - lesser dependence on crude oil import, decarbonisation of the economy, waste management and job creation - which is a casualty in any other renewable energy source.

It was estimated that 62 million tonnes of CBG can be produced in India every year from various sources....