SATAT

Imagine a city's garbage and a farm's leftover crop residue, instead of rotting uselessly or being burnt, being fed into a plant that turns them into a clean fuel good enough to run a vehicle. That is the entire premise of SATAT, Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation.

SATAT is a government scheme promoting the production of Compressed Biogas from agricultural residue, cattle dung, municipal solid waste and other organic waste streams, with oil marketing companies committing to purchase the biogas produced at a fixed price, giving private entrepreneurs the revenue certainty needed to invest in setting up these plants. The scheme deliberately mirrors the logic of ethanol blending, converting a waste management problem into a genuine energy opportunity.

SATAT sits at the intersection of three separate policy goals India cares about simultaneously, reducing crude oil and gas imports, managing agricultural and municipal waste more sustainably, and creating rural entrepreneurship opportunities, which is why it has drawn interest from oil marketing companies, agribusinesses and waste management players alike.