DW BUREAU / Chandigarh The Punjab government has planned to utilise around 1.8 million tons (MT) paddy straw in the under implementation 43 compressed biogas (CBG) projects per annum, New and Renewable Energy Sources Minister Aman Arora said on Tuesday. Addressing the CBG Developers, the Cabinet Minister informed that the state is in process of forming Core Group of all stakeholders like PEDA, GAIL, CGD Companies, CBG producers and PBIP, to coordinate for off-take of CBG through gas pipelines. He said that Asia's largest CBG plant of total capacity 33.23 Ton Per Day (TPD) has already been commissioned in Sangrur and another CBG project of 12 TPD capacity has been commissioned at Khanna and is under trial run. Presently, about 3 Ton CBG is produced in the plant daily. As many as 41 additional CBG projects, which have been allotted by Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA), are under implementation at various stages of execution and expected to be commissioned in next 2 years, he added. On completion, all these projects will produce 515.58 TPD CBG per annum by consuming around 2 million ton Agriculture residue annually, said Mr. Aman Arora, while adding that the state has a potential to set up 200 more CBG projects of 10 TPD capacity each. (editor@dailyworld.in)