India - crop waste power plant
Malavalli Power Plant

• World's first 'Gold Standard' project to have its CERs issued.
• Generating clean, renewable electricity from crop waste such as coconut fronds and sugar cane trash.
• Reducing CO2 emissions by around 20,000 tonnes per year
• Directly creating at least 500 local jobs in the power plant and in the collection of the agricultural waste that the plant uses as a fuel
• Local farmers are now getting paid for crop waste that was previously left to rot or burned
• Directly contributing around US $1 million to the rural economy
• Waste from the power plant is environmentally beneficial as an organic fertilizer
• Supplies reliable electricity for around 10,000 people in 47 villages
• Reliable electricity further stimulates local economic activity

Fuller details can bee seen within the Project Description Document