Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand’s largest province by area, serves as a strategic economic and logistics gateway between Central Thailand and the Northeast.
Its agricultural landscape is highly diversified, encompassing cassava, sugarcane, maize, rice, and large-scale livestock operations, alongside expanding industrial and agro-processing zones.
This diversity results in multiple biomass streams—including sugarcane leaves, cassava residues, corn stover, and animal manure—distributed across a wide geographic area.
Unlike provinces dominated by a single crop, Nakhon Ratchasima presents a unique opportunity to develop multi-feedstock, multi-technology biomass and biogas systems capable of operating year-round.
The province also experiences recurring challenges related to agricultural residue burning, water stress, and rising energy demand from both farming and industry.
Addressing these challenges requires an integrated approach that links renewable energy generation, organic soil restoration, and industrial decarbonization within a single regional framework.
The Nakhon Ratchasima Bioenergy Initiatives are therefore structured to combine distributed biomass and biogas plants, organic fertilizer production, and industrial energy supply—supporting both rural communities and emerging industrial users.
By aligning agricultural residue management with renewable-energy deployment and industrial offtake, the province can strengthen its role as a low-carbon agri-industrial hub supporting Thailand’s BCG Economy Model and Net-Zero ambitions.
Through long-term collaboration with provincial authorities, agricultural institutions, and private investors, Nakhon Ratchasima has the potential to become a flagship province for integrated agri-energy transition, demonstrating how scale, diversity, and infrastructure can be leveraged to deliver inclusive and climate-aligned development.
This project represents a province-wide, cluster-based biomass utilization platform in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, designed to simultaneously address PM2.5 reduction, climate mitigation, rural income generation, and long-term clean energy supply.
Based on officially verified data from the Provincial Agricultural Office, the province generates 2,413,363 tons per year of agricultural residues, primarily rice straw and sugarcane leaves, which are currently under-utilized and often burned in the open. Our platform captures this biomass and converts it into dispatchable renewable electricity, organic compost fertilizer, and verified climate impact, at provincial scale.
In aggregate, the platform supports:
150.84 MW of renewable electricity capacity
Five integrated district clusters, each with localized infrastructure
Five composting plants, each sized at 500,000 tons/year input
Community income exceeding 720 million THB per year
Material reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and PM2.5 pollution
To ensure operational resilience, logistics efficiency, and community participation, the province is divided into five biomass clusters, each centered around a composting and energy conversion hub.
Biomass availability: 425,986 tons/year
Power generation capacity: 26.62 MW
Community income: 127.79 million THB/year
This cluster aggregates residues from intensive rice and sugarcane zones in the northern part of the province. By diverting biomass from open burning, the cluster delivers substantial reductions in PM2.5 while converting low-value residues into stable revenue streams for farmer cooperatives.
Biomass availability: 588,409 tons/year
Power generation capacity: 36.78 MW
Community income: 176.52 million THB/year
As the largest biomass cluster by volume, Dan Khun Thot serves as a regional anchor for electricity generation and compost production. Its scale allows optimization of CAPEX per MW and creates a strong base for long-term power purchase agreements.
Biomass availability: 415,254 tons/year
Power generation capacity: 25.95 MW
Community income: 124.57 million THB/year
This cluster integrates agricultural zones spanning upland and peri-urban districts. The design emphasizes decentralized collection, short transport distances, and farmer-led feedstock aggregation.
Biomass availability: 447,772 tons/year
Power generation capacity: 27.99 MW
Community income: 134.33 million THB/year
Located near the provincial capital, this cluster benefits from grid proximity and logistics efficiency, making it well suited for early-phase project execution and potential industrial off-taker integration.
Biomass availability: 535,939 tons/year
Power generation capacity: 33.50 MW
Community income: 160.78 million THB/year
The Phimai cluster connects large agricultural catchments with scalable processing infrastructure, forming a backbone for long-term expansion into bio-products and carbon markets.
Each cluster includes a dedicated organic composting facility with:
Input capacity: 500,000 tons of biomass per year
Feedstock: rice straw, sugarcane leaves, and agricultural residues
Output: certified organic compost fertilizer
The compost plants are not secondary by-products; they are core infrastructure that:
Permanently remove biomass from open-burning pathways
Improve soil carbon, fertility, and water retention
Reduce synthetic fertilizer dependency and Scope 3 emissions in agriculture
Create an additional, recurring revenue stream independent of electricity prices
This circular model ensures that biomass is fully valorized, even during periods of grid constraints or seasonal electricity dispatch limitations.
Rather than over-building centralized storage, the platform applies a demand-driven warehouse model:
Biomass warehouses are constructed only where required
Each warehouse serves a 30–50 km radius, primarily in remote zones
Locations are selected based on distance from composting plants and collection density
This approach minimizes idle capital, reduces handling losses, and improves project IRR while maintaining feedstock security.
By replacing open burning with controlled conversion and soil-return pathways, the platform delivers:
Significant greenhouse gas mitigation, primarily through avoided methane and black carbon emissions
Direct PM2.5 reduction, particularly during peak burning seasons
Eligibility for carbon credit certification under removal and avoidance methodologies
These impacts are designed to be measurable, reportable, and verifiable (MRV-ready), supporting future monetization through voluntary carbon markets and climate-linked financing instruments.
This platform offers:
Provincial-scale deployment with modular execution
Multiple revenue layers: electricity, compost, carbon, and logistics services
Strong alignment with clean air policy, climate finance, and rural development
High replicability across other agricultural provinces in Thailand and ASEAN
This is not a single power project, but a scalable biomass infrastructure platform that converts environmental liabilities into long-term, bankable assets.