Being an agro-livestock based economy; Pakistan has huge
resources of biomass that are available in the form of crop residues,
dung and feces, poultry litter, sugarcane bagasse and wood [5].
Electricity generation using biomass is one of the most convenient
options, approximately 9 Giga Watts of electricity is generated from
biomass worldwide. Pakistan is world’s 5th largest sugarcane producer
with an average annual production of 50 million tons cane
and 10 million tons of bagasse. According to an estimate there are
about 80 sugar mills having potential to generate almost 3000 MW