Overall, 3694 tonnes of surplus rice straw is spatially distributed in the 27 villages with variation from 45.12 to 291.09 tonnes per village, as shown in Fig. 3(b). Rice straw fueled potential electric power capacity in the villages range between 4.45 kW and 28.69 kW. The variation of potential is due to variation in rice crop land availability among the villages. It is observed that in 10, 14 and 3 villages, rice straw based potential electric power capacity is 10 kW, 10e20 kW and 20 kW, respectively as shown in Fig. 3(c). The maximum potential electric power capacity at individual village level is 28.69 kW.