Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) is constructing a biogas plant at Green Town, Millat Road, to run 5KV to 10KV power generators on experimental basis. According to RSPN sources, the project would be completed with the financial assistance of the Netherlands Development Organisation and Win Rock International.
Pakistan's biogas programme aims to develop domestic biogas sector as a whole. Sector development implies the close co-operation and co-ordination of all relevant stakeholders (government, non-government and private sector) at all levels (micro and macro) whereby those stakeholders are equipped to fulfil the necessary functions. The function chart indicates the main functions in a large-scale domestic biogas programme and its relations.
The proposed project is designed to put down a robust foundation for the establishment of a commercially viable domestic biogas sector. The proposal uses a time horizon of four years to strengthen the commercial biogas sector.
The project will promote an approach in which government, non-government and private sector organisations, in a complementary fashion, assume those sector functions that intrinsically fit the character of each organisation or institution. Through the project, the stakeholders are enmeshed in a supply and demand context in which the supply side ensures off-the-shelf availability of the technology while the pluralistic demand side organises the beneficiaries, provides microfinance, promotes the technology and integrates it into rural development activities, sources mentioned.
RSPN sources said that about 3000 plants had been constructed in 12 districts of central Punjab, which would adhere to all guidelines required for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) so that Carbon Credits obtained from the project could be redeemed and utilised for further expansion of the programme.
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