Cleaner air, lower carbon, less waste.

Open burning of paddy straw pollutes the air and wastes energy. Biomass pellets are a practical, scalable alternative — good for the environment and the power sector alike.

The problem

The smoke over the fields.

Across India's paddy belt, the quickest way to clear a field after harvest is to burn the leftover straw. Season after season, this sends huge volumes of smoke and fine particulate into the air and destroys energy that could have been used.

Stubble burning is now a major cause of seasonal air pollution. Yet the residue itself is a resource — if it's collected and converted before it reaches a matchstick.

The solution

From a problem in the field to fuel in the grid.

Collect, don't combust

Residue is gathered and brought to the plant instead of being set alight — removing the smoke at source.

Densify into pellets

Loose, bulky straw becomes dense, storable, transportable fuel with a predictable heating value.

Co-fire with coal

Power plants blend the pellets into their boilers, cutting the share of fossil coal they burn.

Policy tailwind

Co-firing is no longer optional.

The Government of India has directed coal-based thermal plants to co-fire biomass alongside coal, with the blending share set to rise over time — designed precisely to absorb crop residue and curb open burning.

→National mandate for biomass co-firing in coal-fired power stations

→Blending share scheduled to increase across compliance years

→A direct route for crop residue to displace mined and imported coal

The payoff

Three wins from one tonne of pellets.

Cleaner air

Every tonne of agricultural waste we pelletise is a tonne not set alight — cutting the smoke and fine particulate that blankets the paddy belt each harvest.

Lower net carbon

Swapping coal for crop-grown fuel closes the carbon loop, lowering the net fossil emissions of every boiler it feeds.

Rural value

Residue that once cost farmers time and money to clear now earns them income — putting value back into the villages we source from.

Put your co-firing target on cleaner fuel.

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