India, Nov. 13 -- In 2018 a great initiative was announced under SATAT scheme aiming to facilitate 5,000 CBG plants based on agricultural residues, and especially paddy stubble, the burning of which annually adds to the pollution crisis of Delhi and NCR. Only a fraction, about 114 plants, reached operational scale, and most of these run well below capacity. Several issues became a problem, which highlight the policy aspect. Proper pricing was not announced to make these plants viable; it was not promised for a long tenure to make it bankable; there was no evacuation - either there were no pipelines to carry it to city gas centres or not enough transport demand as was envisaged. There were large volumes of digestate with no plan for their ...