Industry Trends · 25 Oct 2026Editor’s Pick
The Law Now Forces India's Gas Companies to Buy Biogas. The Plants to Make It Barely Exist. If You Collect Crop Waste or Dung, You Are the Missing Piece.
From 2025-26, every city-gas company in India must blend compressed biogas (CBG) into the CNG and cooking gas it sells, starting at 1%, rising to 3% in 2026-27 and 5% by 2028-29. That demand is law, not hope. But only about 217 CBG plants are running against a target of 5,000, and the government's own reading is blunt: the thing holding CBG back is feedstock aggregation. Big money is now rushing in, Petronet LNG just put ₹1,200 crore into ten new plants, and every one of those plants will live or die on a steady supply of the crop residue, cattle dung, press mud and wet market waste that you handle. For once, the scarce link in the chain is not the buyer. It is the supplier.