India’s state-run oil marketing companies Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation plan to spend over $1.5 billion to set up Bio-Compressed Natural Gas (Bio-CNG) plants across India to promote clean fuel and reduce the country’s fuel import bill.
Bio-CNG is a renewable form of energy produced from agricultural and food waste that farmers can provide. Converting bio-mass to compressed biogas and bio-CNG will help reduce stubble burning that contributes to air pollution and also create additional income for farmers.
The Bio-CNG plan will be part of the national bio-fuels policy to be released end of this month. The policy will detail a $15.7 billion investment opportunity under the Waste-to-Wealth Projects envisaged by the government. In 2018, forty-two plants will become operational which will be scaled up to 400 over the next three to four years.
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
