Poultry Litter based Power Project in Namakkal
January 4th, 2009Name of Project Poultry Litter based Power Project in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu by M/s. G.K. Bioenergy Pvt. Ltd
Location of the project (village / District / State) Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
Brief Description of the project The proposed project involves the collection of Poultry litter from 12 poultries with a population of 1.5 million birds accounts for 200TPD of litter cumulatively. The collected litter will be transported to the plant where the litter will be processed in a high rate bio-methanation digester for optimal methane generation. This gas will then used for power generation and the installed plant generation capacity is 1.5MW. The generated power will be supplied to the state grid through the PPA made with TNEB. This project claims for the CERs from both the methane recovery in the poultry litter & the power generated from the project that replaces the fossil fuel based grid.
Estimate of GHG abatement in tCO2 eq. 96000
Host Country Approval Status Approved
Project Owner / Proponent Mr. Palanisami Subramani, Director, G.K. Bioenergy Pvt. Ltd. G 112, 9th Street, Anna Nagar, Chennai, TamilNadu Tel: 044-2642 7577 Fax: 044-2641 1788
Baseline methodology Approved SSC Type I.D. ‘Renewable Energy Projects for grid’ Type III.D. ‘Other project activities, methane recovery’
Project start date March 2001
Project completion date July 2005