A biogas digester functions as a springboard for children in a small dairy farm, about 100 km south of Chennai. The digester, made by the Mexican company system. Bio and price of ₹ 40,000, produces 2 cubic meters of daily gas, using cow manure as raw material. Biogas digesters are sought after companies looking for carbon loans | Photo credit: m Rameh
A few years ago, a Cookstave mania seized the world. The companies were criticized everywhere to venture into what was considered a lucrative business, occasionally, they manufacture “efficient fuel” kitchen stoves, distribute them to rural people free of costs and collect carbon cuts for fuel and, Therm, Therby, Therby. Soon, the business collapsed in the middle of reports of alleged spontaneous abortions ranging from a fraudulent count of cooking stoves not distributed to exaggerating carbon dioxide emissions. The researchers found gifted stoves that were disused, while families continued to cook in conventional stoves. Given the cooking nature of carbon credits, buyers of these credit companies committed to emission reduction objectives are trust.
Now, Cookstaves is giving way to a new biogas of manure -based manure. In India, entities such as the National Board of Dairy Development (NDDB), Amul, La Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Nestle, Danone and Infosys are in this new business. They largely subsidize the cost of biogas reactors in exchange for underlying carbon credits. This helps companies measure their emission reduction goals while worth a decent performance to sell credits. It also helps farmers to approach the cooking gases of almost zero cost.
Raja is a farmer who raises eight cows in a retention that is less than a quarter of acre, near the village of Pooriyambakam, about 100 km south of Chennai. During generations, his family has been cultivating crops, but Raja has now supported the business in another leg production: milk production. The reason: the advent of Akshayakalpa Farms and Foods PVT LTD, the organic dairy products based in Tiptur, Karnataka that offers to buy milk from farmers who follow their conditions in the new march of cattle. Farmers get a premium (and a fast payment) for organic milk, which Akshayakalpa is sold or becomes a variety of dairy products for sale.
Raja cows produce many manure: 20 kg per animal per day. He was previously using manure as manure, but a Mexican company, system.
Savings and credits
SYSTEM. The bio reactor ₹ 40,000, eats 40 kg or manure daily, and throws 2 cubic meters of biogas, enough to cook three hours per day.
But Raja did not have to pay the total cost of the reactor. Instead, Shell Foundation intervened and paid ₹ 33,000; Raja only had to pay the rest. He spent ₹ 4,000 additional to prepare cattle shed. The Dunkry grout flows to the digester, which is the size of a double crib. After 22 days of initial waiting, the digester begins to produce daily gas. The black polymer leaf that covers the digester is bulging all the time with the gas. Raja’s children love: they use it as a springboard.
Raja no longer buys LPG to cook. He considers that his family has saved ₹ 2,200 per month, from his investment of ₹ 11000.
For its investment of ₹ 33,000, Shell Foundation obtains about 6-7 carbon credits per year, verified and certified by Gold Standard, a non-profit organism launched by the World Fund for Nature (WWF). The price of these credits in the ‘voluntary market’ varies, somewhat cushioned by the Cookstave failure failure, but $ 10 for credit is a reasonable hope.
System.bio, which produces the biogas reactors in Pune, so far has supplied Lakh units to Indian farmers in the last seven years, mainly sponsored by Infosys, Shell and Nestlé. Other companies such as NDDB, AMUL and GCMMF have recently joined. Akshayakalpa has also bought one of the largest system reactors. Bio (180 kg per day) for its experimental farm in Pooriyambakam, where it has about 25 cows. Hatsun Agro, the largest milk company in southern India, is in conversations with system.
Gas Meter
The model for the distribution of biogas reactors is similar to that of cookstaves: gifts the device in exchange for carbon credits. Except, the reactors cost much more, compared to the average price of ₹ 2,000 for a stove, which obtains 4 credits per year. This has required a sustained impulse to obtain the acceptance of the concept, a system official. Bio said Business lineAdding that the effort is now paying off.
System.bio sees great potential in this business. There are 70 million dairy producers in India, the company said in a recent press release. It is aimed at “empowering” one million farmers by 2030. It is also exploring an attached business: Biochar, which can kidnap carbon for sinks of years. Pertinent to keep in mind that the Biochar company based in Hyderabad Varaha recently registered to sell a LKH of carbon credits based on Bioachar to Google.
Of course, there are persistent conerns about the integrity of carbon credits based on these biogas plants. System.bio has tried to address the thesis by acquiring a company of gas meters, including Energy, in October 2024. Today, system digesters. Bio come with the meters. In addition, the biogas model is more susceptible to monitoring than stoves.
The business of ‘Cookstoves for Carbon Credits’ is not dead but under a cloud, even when Biogas and Biochar move quickly. The carbon credits industry will receive a boost when the Indian carbon market comes true.
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Posted on April 13, 2025