While renewable energy in India is gaining traction, the country's southern electricity grid remains dominated by polluting fossil fuel power plants. At the same time, the local poultry industry is dumping large amounts of litter in landfills around farms. As well as creating large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide, there's the risk it could contaminate the local environment. This clever project has found a unique solution to tackle both these issues!
With the support of carbon finance, this project is diverting waste poultry litter and rice husks from landfill sites and into a newly built generator. Here the waste gets turned into renewable energy, which besides some small internal consumption, is sent straight to the regional grid.
By reimagining the concept of waste at local farms, the project is driving both the circular economy and the transition to renewable energy! It greens the local energy grid, thereby displacing energy generated from fossil fuels and cutting the associated emissions. And let's not forget the methane emissions it also helps to avoid; this improves sanitation and odour for the nearby villages resulting in better health and living conditions. This project also creates a number of job opportunities, a share of which goes to the local communities, boosting the regional economy, while training provides staff with skills that could help other renewable energy projects flourish. Through carbon finance, companies can help to transform underserved areas in rural India and bring all these additional benefits in a transparent way.
To learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals verified by the standard for this project, please check the registry link.
