Case study

Rural electrification
Electricity from chicken litter

Sadhvi boinapally Rao(P14PS002) Pinkal Chaudhari (P14PS018)

Sugandha chauhan (P14PS005) Gohil Nidhi J (P14PS023)

Neha agarwal (P14PS009)

Electricity from chicken litter in a
Poultry farm
 Introduction
• About Site:

• In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Subhashri Bio Energies

of Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, has been generating
electricity from poultry litter.
• Chicken droppings, are used in generating electricity
in a non-descript Tamil Nadu village.
• The chicken droppings produce methane gas at a farm
in Goundampalayam in Namakkal district and the gas
is converted into electricity using a patented
technology .
• The farmer sells the dried litter slurry generated as a
residue as manure for farmers.
• The farmer uses slurry and converts the remaining
liquid scum as liquid NPK (nitrogen, phosphorous
and potassium) fertiliser.
• If the total poultry litter (6,000 tonnes) in Namakkal
district is collected daily and processed, nearly 16
MW of power an hour can be generated, with 1,000
tonnes of manure and 10,000 litres of liquid bio
fertiliser as by-products.

• Built around 60 acres at Goundampalayam in

Namakkal district, the company’s biogas power plant
is the country’s first power project that extracts energy
from poultry excrement. It started with a capacity of
2.5 MW and scaled up to 3.76 MW gradually.
• Known as the poultry hub of India, Namakkal has
80% of the poultry business concentrated within the
50-km radius in the city.
• The district produces 2.5 crore eggs a day, which
generates a turnover of around Rs 7 crore per day.
• The layer bird feed industry alone makes a turnover
of another Rs 7 crore a day.
• A layer bird generates litter of around 50 grams a day
and the 3.5 crore layer birds in the district produce
1,600 tonne litter per day.
• It is benefiting the farmers as they get to earn around
Rs 13 per layer bird in its lifetime from just its litter.
It is actually 30% of the profit that a farmer earns
through a layer bird in its lifetime of 1.5 years.
Key facts at a glance: