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Clenergen has acquired a 1.5MW/h anaerobic digestion biomass power plant site located in Salem, Tamilnadu, which will be upgraded to 10MW/h by 2011. The plant is currently operational and will reach a full generating capacity July 2010. The company intends to sell the electricity through short term power purchase agreements with direct end users at an average price of between US $0.14-18 KW/h, which will be incorporated under an umbrella 15 year guaranteed Power Purchase Agreement entered into with Power Trading Corporation of India Limited (PTC).

The site includes ten acres of land with a power evacuation substation onsite. The substation allows access to the national power grid system with minimal transmission loss. The power plant is a turnkey, fully operational facility which generates electricity through an anaerobic digestion process of chicken litter in order to produce Methane gas. The Methane gas is then used as a source of power generation using GE Jenbacher gas engines. The by-product of the anaerobic digestion process is chicken litter compost (38.6 tons per day), which can be processed to produce fertilizer for sale to third parties and/or used to supply Clenergen energy crop plantations, resulting in a cost savings of approximately $3 million per annum.

Under the expansion plans, the anaerobic digestion biomass power plant will be increased to 8MW/h, along with the installation of a 2MW/h Ankur Gasification Biomass Power Plant, which will utilize wood biomass as it’s feedstock.