Barriers to biogas dissemination in India: A review
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

Biogas has emerged as a promising renewable technology to convert agricultural, animal, industrial and municipal wastes into energy. Biogas development can be integrated with strategies to improve sanitation as well as reduce indoor air pollution and greenhouse gases. Currently, the total biogas production in India is 2.07 billion m(3)/year. This is quite low compared to its potential, which is estimated to be in the range of 29-48 billion m(3)/year. Hence, this study aims to identify both technical and non-technological barriers impending biogas dissemination in India. Biogas dissemination is affected by various waste, renewable energy, and urban policies. Barriers were therefore identified individually for rural and urban biogas systems existing in India using decomposition analysis. The results show that type and importance of barriers vary strongly between biogas systems due to the difference in technology maturity, feedstock availability and quality, supply chain, awareness level and policy support.

Decomposition analysis

Expert interviews

Barrier identification

Biogas

Bioenergy policies

Literature review

Författare

Shivika Mittal

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Energiteknik

Erik Ahlgren

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Energiteknik

Priyadarshi Ramprasad Shukla

IIMA (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)

Energy Policy

0301-4215 (ISSN)

Vol. 112 361-370

Ämneskategorier

Energisystem

DOI

10.1016/j.enpol.2017.10.027

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