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India's Ambitious Biogas Program in Question

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Jun 06, 2013
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An ambitious and heavily subsidized program to encourage rural India to install biogas and manure plants for renewable energy appears to have been largely a flop, at least in Uttar Pradesh, according to Surabhi Agarwal, an engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology in Khanpur.

Despite acute power shortages in rural areas, varying levels of poverty …

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