Uttrakhand Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated state’s first project for generating power through pine needles with 25KW capacity.
Rawat said that this project will be very useful to protect the environment from forest fires as pine needles with high resin content are one of the main reasons for the spread of forest fires in Uttarakhand.
The chief minister further informed that 23 lakh metric tonnes of pine needles are produced in the state annually, from which about 200 megawatts of electricity can be produced.
