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#Energy #Biomass
✅ The Power Ministry in October 2021 had decreed that all thermal power plants ensure compliance by October 2022. But, India is severely lagging in ensuring that at least 5% of coal used in thermal plants was mixed with biomass despite guidelines mandating them to do so.
✅ Biomass pellets have the same calorific value as coal and mixing them with coal saves consumption as well as reportedly cuts emissions.
🔗➖ @prep4upsc
#Energy #Biomass
✅ The Power Ministry in October 2021 had decreed that all thermal power plants ensure compliance by October 2022. But, India is severely lagging in ensuring that at least 5% of coal used in thermal plants was mixed with biomass despite guidelines mandating them to do so.
✅ Biomass pellets have the same calorific value as coal and mixing them with coal saves consumption as well as reportedly cuts emissions.
🔗➖ @prep4upsc
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