One day Workshop on “Sustainable Co-firing of Biomass in Thermal Power Plants” was organized by DVC

NEW DELHI- Damodar Valley Corporation organized a regional-level workshop on " Sustainable co-firing of Biomass in TPP: A step towards Carbon Neutrality”  on 20.12.2022 at Kolkata. Shri S. Suresh Kumar, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Power, Government of WB was the Chief Guest. 

Dr Ashok Kumar Ghosh, Chairman, BPCB,  Shri Sudip Nag, ED-NTPC & Director National Biomass Mission, Shri Subhashis Ghosh, Director (Operation), WBPDCL and Shri N.S. Mondal, Member Secretary, ERPC attended the inaugural session as "Guest of Honour". 

Shri Ram Naresh Singh, Chairman DVC addressed the Regional level Workshop. Shri S. L. Bhalotia, CVO, DVC was also present in the workshop. Shri. M Raghu Ram, Member (Technical), Shri. Arup Sarkar, Member (Finance) & Dr John Mathai, Member (Secretary) also addressed the participants. Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Chief Environment Officer, WB attended the program & addressed the participants. The Welcome address was delivered by Sri Sanjoy Kumar Ghosh, ED(Operation), DVC.

This workshop is the first of its kind to be organized in Eastern India, specifically in the state of West Bengal. National Biomass Mission deliberated the policy details & latest status & future action plan for co-firing of Biomass in TPPs across the country. 

Discussions were held at length amongst the delegates to raise awareness about the sustainable cofiring of Biomass in TPPs and how it will be a revolutionary mission benefitting both the farmers and the power generators. 

The workshop was attended by more than 150 participants covering officials from BHEL, BCKV, DVC, CESC, WBPDCL, NPTI, Maithon Power Limited, BPSCL, FPOs, pellet-making machine manufacturers and biomass pellet manufacturers. Stalls of SBI and pellet as well as pellet-making machine manufacturers were also on display. 

Executive Directors, HOPs of DVC TPPs, and Senior level officials of DVC attended the program. Papers from Mission Biomass (SAMARTH), CEA, SBI, M/s SRE, M/s Unnmukt, M/s ERDAILLUMINE and  M/s CALIFORNIA PELLET MILL (CPM) were presented. Technical papers by Prof Sudipta De, JU, Dr Subhadip Aich, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Tata Power Maithon, WBPDCL and DVC were also presented and interactions w made largely between TPPs & pellet manufacturers. The programme ended with a vote of thanks delivered by Shri V.N. Sharma Chief Engineer (M) DVC. 

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