NTPC is set to launch India's first biomass-based thermal power plant in Solapur, Maharashtra, using bamboo mixed with coal to generate electricity. Farmers will supply bamboo, supported by subsidies, ...
"Currently, Solapur Thermal Power station consumes 40 lakh tonne coal to generate power every year. If 1 kg of coal is fired, it produces 2.08 kg of carbon, imagine the carbon emission every year," ...
This development comes after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wrote to the National Thermal Power Corporation chairman proposing to start India’s first biomass-based (bamboo) thermal power project at ...