Powering India's Energy Transition: EAC at the 3rd Annual Conference on Compressed Biogas in India

New Delhi, 2 July 2026: EAC International Consulting opened the 3rd Annual Conference on Compressed Biogas in India with a keynote session on "India's CBG Sector: Evolution, Execution and the Road Ahead," setting the tone for two days of dialogue at Le Méridien, New Delhi. Organised by Renewable Watch Magazine, the conference convened senior voices from across the value chain, including developers, technology providers, financiers, and policymakers, representing India's CBG ecosystem.

Delivered by Dr. Rajesh Raut, the presentation traced India's CBG sector through its evolution and the execution challenges now shaping its path forward, framing a sector at an inflection point: from policy-led momentum to the harder, more decisive work of delivery. Today, India's operational CBG capacity stands at 1,138 TPD across 173 plants, up 14% year-on-year, but still a fraction of the sector's full potential. A further 2,968 TPD is under construction and roughly 9,600 TPD sits at the Letter of Intent stage, underscoring both strong intent and the sector's historically weak conversion from announcement to operation.

With over half of India's natural gas demand met through imports, and global energy markets increasingly exposed to geopolitical disruption, domestically produced CBG offers a rare combination: a scalable, homegrown substitute for imported gas that also strengthens long-term energy security. Drawing on its deep expertise in the sector, EAC estimates India's total CBG potential at 16.1–19.5 MTPA, a resource base large enough to meaningfully shift the country's gas balance, but only if unlocked through a phased approach that first optimises the feedstocks already accessible today, then progressively mobilises underutilised biomass through coordinated action across industry and policy. Done right, this phased growth can lift CBG's contribution well beyond today's roughly 3% blending share in the highest-priority CGD segment, and steadily reduce India's reliance on imported gas.

A central thread running through the session was EAC's Five Levers framework: Capital Access & Capex Support, CBG Pricing & FOM Monetization, Carbon Revenue as a Third Income Stream, Technology Stabilization, and an Integrated Value Chain. These are the coordinated interventions that will determine whether India's CBG projects move from concept to bankable, scalable reality. Grounded in EAC's project experience and continuous industry tracking, this framework underpins the firm's advisory work with developers and investors across the CBG value chain.

"India's CBG sector has moved past the question of intent; the real test now is execution," said Dr. Rajesh Raut.

India's CBG sector stands at a pivotal moment. EAC's session at this year's conference offered a clear-eyed view of the road ahead, grounded in deep sector expertise and shaped by hands-on advisory experience across the value chain.

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