Archive · 16 Dec 2025
Chennai Schools Get Biogas Plants for Clean Energy
The Greater Chennai Corporation is setting up biogas plants in schools to use food waste for cooking.
This helps schools save money on cooking gas and teaches students about taking care of the environment.
The plants turn food waste into gas that can be used for cooking and also make compost for gardening.
A few schools already have these plants and are saving gas and reducing waste.
The plan is to set up more of these plants in places where a lot of food waste is produced.
Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is installing biogas plants in schools to use kitchen waste for cooking and promote sustainable waste management.
The initiative focuses on campuses with centralised kitchens to maximise the use of kitchen waste and generated cooking gas.
GCC plans to collaborate with NGOs, individuals, and residents’ welfare associations to implement the project.
A pilot biogas plant was successfully installed at a Corporation higher secondary school in South Chennai, saving one LPG cylinder every two months.
The biogas plants also generate slurry that can be converted into compost for gardening and small-scale food cultivation on school campuses.
- Who
- Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC)
- What
- Installing biogas plants in schools for clean energy and waste management
- When
- Pilot project in progress, with a successful installation at a school in South Chennai
- Where
- Chennai, India
- Why
- To reduce dependence on LPG cylinders, lower cooking fuel costs, and promote sustainable waste management practices
- Organization
- Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC)
- Initiative
- Install biogas plants in schools
- Pilot Locations
- Four cloud kitchens
- Cost of Pilot Plant
- Rs 5.7 lakh
- Waste Processed Daily
- 15-20 kg
- LPG Savings
- One cylinder every two months
- Beneficiaries
- 250 students
- Additional Benefit
- Slurry for compost