This workshop will help educate investors on how to reduce risk of biogas projects and improve their economic and technical performance.
Agenda
10:00 am – 11:15 am - Opening
- Welcome Address: Dr Suneel Pandey, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
- Global Methane Initiative – Solid Waste Sector: Mr. Tom Frankiewicz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC
- Global Methane Initiative – Agriculture Sector: Mr. Nick Elger, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC
- Special Address: Mr. V. K. Jindal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) (invited)*
- Inaugural Address: Mr. Dinesh Dayanand Jagdale, Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable (MNRE) (invited)*
11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Session 1 - Agricultural Biogas Projects
Venue: Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre
- Policies enabling biogas projects in India: Mr. Vijay Bharti, MNRE
- Market Opportunities for Biogas Projects in India Report: Mr. Nick Elger, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- International initiative (Swiss): Mr. Gurjot Singh, BioShakti
- Technical and economic evaluation of feedstock supply chains in India: Dr. Manas Puri United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization*
- Alternative uses of agricultural biogas (e.g. cold storage): Mr Anurag Agrawal, New Leaf Dynamic
- Moderator: Mr Sunil Dhingra
Session 2 – Organic Waste Management
Venue: Seminar Hall, TERI, India Habitat Centre
- Key challenges to source segregation in Delhi: Mr. Pradeep Kumar Khadelwal, EDMC and Dr. Ramesh Kumar/ Dr. Shakuntala, NDMC*
- Successful source segregation: Sonia Garga, Saahas, Gurugram and Ritu Sen/ Praveen Naik, Ambikapur*
- Anaerobic digesters for organic waste management: Opportunities and Challenges A case study of Varanasi: Jai Kumar Gaurav, GIZ
- Moderator: Dr. Suneel Pandey
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Tools for Biogas Development
- Biogas Toolkit: Mr. Nick Elger, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Tool demonstration/training
- Anaerobic Digestion-Project Screening Tool: Mr. Sunil Dhingra, TERI
- Solid Waste Emissions Estimation Tool: Mr. Sourabh Manuja, TERI
- Risk Analysis and Technical Review Checklist for Biogas: Dr. Nimmi Damodaran
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Financing Biogas Projects
- Panel discussion on available funding and financing readiness best practices for biogas and bio-CNG projects
- IREDA, UNIDO, IOCL, KfW German Development Bank
- Moderator: Prof. V.K. Vijay, IIT Delhi