An exclusive interview with Bharti Waters one of the leading companies in water technology, solar assets, and biofuel upgradation in India.

The company is focused on providing solutions for groundwater contamination removal, including iron, arsenic, and fluoride.

Tell me about yourself.

Hello, I am Siddharth Agarwal from Bharti Waters. I am Ahmed Abdul Shafiq from Hego Biotech International. So, Hego Biotech and Bharti Waters are joint venture partners for the distribution of FerroZorb products.

FerroZorb is basically the world’s number-one product for H2S removal from biogas plants. We have had a very successful run till now in India.

We are working with almost all the big biogas plants including five plants of Reliance, the biggest biogas plant in Asia of Adani, Barsana and also we work with a lot of other system integrators throughout the country.

So I think biogas, most of the biogas is being generated through agricultural waste and you will see that these plants will start coming everywhere.

So we plan to go pan India even though our partners are very excited about the Indian market.

So, Hego Biotech is a German company based in Berlin and we manufacture there our products, our Ferrosorb S.

Last year we saw the potential of the biogas industry here in India and after the new regulations and laws regarding green energy, So the biogas industry is starting to develop and also expand more in the India market.

And we were sure that our product would take part in this green journey in India. And unexpectedly, we have had a great success till now with the help of our partners, Bharti Waters. And yeah, we still like… At the beginning, we expected much more now.

Question to Mr. Ahmed– What’s your opinion on the journey in the Indian market?

market? I would say generally that the Asian market as a European country is different. like from European because the technology is well established and all there but the India market is still learning more and more and but actually it’s going faster and I expect like in the next five years it will be something huge here the biogas and the green energy industry in general.

Question to Mr. Agarwal Which part of the India can see the boom in the Biogas plant?

As I said the entire country is going to have the have the boom of biogas. But if you just talk about right now, I’m seeing a lot of biogas plants coming up in Uttar Pradesh, in Punjab, in Haryana, because these are predominantly agricultural states and and I see a very big potential. So fingers crossed, let’s see how the market grows. I think it’s good for the environment.

It will substantially reduce pollution levels. We are all aware about the about the stubble burning issues during the winter season and it’s a big headache for the government and finally they are creating opportunity out of this challenge. So, I think it’s going to be a great sector for India.

What is the market price of the Biogas plant?

So right now, I think the market is still at the very nascent stages. Approximately, I think 64 biogas plants have been set up under the Satark scheme.

But the government has a very ambitious target of 5000 plants over the next couple of years, which will be almost a market of approximately 2 lakh crores. which is approximately 25 billion dollars in the next couple of years.
So we are excited to see that opportunity and also it will help a lot in preventing the imports and the expensive cost of forex that is leaving the country.

What about the Job opportunities?

It’s a very big job opportunity. The people in the villages, they don’t have to go to the cities to find jobs because the biogas plants will be set up in the villages, in the rural areas because that’s where the agricultural waste is.

So I think it will prevent the migration of people from their hometowns into cities and also give them sustainable opportunities in their own villages.

What kind of collaboration do you think is working out like a foreign collaboration in the Indian market? So how were the journeys from the challenges to coping up with any new solutions?

Yeah, so I’ll give my word first. So we are constantly learning from Hego Biotech as they are the market leaders and they come with over three decades of experience in the biogas sector.

We learn from them every day and directly and indirectly, our customers are benefiting from them because they don’t have to make the mistakes that the Europeans or the Americans did. and they can directly jump to the right technology with the right technical know-how.

So making the plants more profitable, faster with the right technologies. So I think for us it has been a good journey. So I will add some stuff to Sidharth’s words.

So actually, yeah, we have been training Bharti and also their customers about how to use our products safely and how to get the best of our products.

But at the same time, we are learning because, as I said, it’s in Europe, it’s well established. So they are aware of the technology, of everything.

But here it’s new. So we have encountered challenges that we didn’t know about before. So we had to find new solutions with our partners here. And yeah, so we are actually developing ourselves, even our R&D section, like new research to be done.

So we actually… learning also when we started in the like in the Indian market. So, it’s the decision that is made about this new energy regulations actually it’s exciting because it’s Yeah, it’s like job offers, no more imports, like you’re cutting your imports cost, but also you’re helping a lot the villagers to have a sustainable energy, like natural gas, and also you are saving them from, like, because they are burning normally the waste, so it’s toxic to them and to the environment.

So, apart from the economics, it’s helping a lot the villagers that they don’t have much access to energy.

What about the revenue or turnover?

Actually, this is because Bharti and Hego are both privately held companies. We don’t want to tell about the figures, but as I said that we are working with all the Reliance projects and the Dhani projects and also like most of the big plants, you can guess the revenues.

But we see a lot of tailwinds in the sector and we see that the business will grow obviously that is the byproduct but also if the industry grows we will do well so that’s it.