Synergizing Biogas: The Vital Role of State-Level Energy Policies in Ensuring India's Energy Security for future

India's Viksit Bharat vision for 2047 demands an energy system that is secure, affordable, and set to power sustained high and rapid growth. As energy demand increases with development, enhancing the reliance on a diversified suite of low carbon fuels that are indigenously available can help hedge against geopolitical uncertainties and risks on account of price volatility and supply chain disruptions. Among clean solutions, biomass-based bioenergy such as biogas and Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) offer a scalable, rural-centric pathway that converts agricultural residues, municipal organic wastes, and agro-industrial by-products into grid-ready green gas for transport and cooking. Central policies have created demand signals and offtake assurance, but execution success hinges on state capacity: land facilitation, feedstock aggregation, and last-mile pipeline connectivity. This paper synthesizes some State-level best practices that are already moving the needle: Uttar Pradesh's Bio-Energy Policy; Gujarat's CBG injection pilots; Punjab–Haryana's ex-situ paddy-straw programs; and Odisha's waste to energy integration within its broader RE framework. Drawing on these, we propose harmonization of state incentives; expand CBG-CGD injection nodes and virtual pipelines; de-risk feedstock via MSP-like floors and mechanized aggregation; digitize biomass logistics using GIS/IoT; valorize digestate (Fermented Organic Manure-FOM) to reduce fertilizer imports; and unlock blended finance and credit guarantees. Together, such steps could help position biogas/CBG as a key component of India's secure, self-reliant, and low-carbon energy future by mid-century.