Biogas support programme

As mentioned in the Rural Biomass Development Plan, the Chinese government has set a biogas generation target of 44 billion m3 by 2020. To meet such targets, the National Biogas Project Construction Plan (2006-2010) provides financial and technical supports to generation projects at the household level and to medium and large scale biogas projects in mass production farms. The plan should secure biogas access for 40 million new rural households, therefore generating 15.4 billion m3 of biogas annually. Estimations anticipate such a deployment to substitute about 24.2 million tons of conventional coal consumption. In addition, 4, 700 medium and large scale biogas projects will be deployed in agricultural exploitations.

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