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During a motivating story of sustainability in the midst of increasing LPG issues with global tensions, Priyadarshan Sahasrabuddhe, an engineer at Pune and a graduate of IIT Mumbai, has not purchased a single LPG cylinder in the past seven years. After fitting his small biogas station, Vaayu, at home in 2019, he uses an estimated 11 kg of the kitchen waste produced by his household and neighbors, converting it to about 800 liters of methane-rich cooking gas every day by installing a compact biogas, Vaayu, at home.

Vaayu anaerobic digestion operation generates clean, renewable fuel on par with large LPG savings, and it has been reported that more than 2,500 cylinders annually are avoided per unit and a greater volume of waste is diverted from landfills, more than 1,000 tons. The innovation is fitted in hundreds of households throughout Maharashtra, among many others, and is starting to gain momentum as a viable option when supply goes unchecked.

The program by Sahasrabuddhe does more than cut household fuel prices but goes ahead to encourage decentralized green energy that will ensure fewer negative effects on the environment. Analysts are acclaiming it to be a scaled version of urban India whereby daily garbage is turned into a highly prized resource in green living.