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Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company Ltd (TOWMCL) has submitted an application for approval of its proposed WtE project. The project involves the construction of a 17 MW WtE plant in Delhi, even though an exact…
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Automobile company Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) has installed a pilot biogas plant at its site in Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana, which began operations in June 2024. The plant processes Napier grass and food waste to…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced plans for the production of biomass briquettes from municipal biowaste as well as a biomass processing unit in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The briquettes should be produced from biowaste such…
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Bangkok-based plastics and packaging materials producer Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL) has received a USD 200 million (EUR 186.7 million) loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC). According to the source, the funding should…
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NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVNL) and the government of Haryana are planning to sign an MoU for the construction of new waste to charcoal plants. Plants are to be set up in Haldwani, Vadodara,…
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Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and environmental services company EverEnviro Resource Management Pvt. Ltd. have formed a JV to develop ten CBG plants across India. The plants should process agricultural waste, agro-industrial waste,…
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Automobile company Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) has published plans for a pilot biogas plant at its Manesar facility in Haryana for the fiscal year 2024-25. The plant is designed to convert food waste and…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is planning to build five AD plants in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, by the end of this year. The plants should use around a third of the wet waste generated daily…
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Sistema.bio India has announced plans to install 1 million small-scale biogas installations, intended for domestic cooking, in the next 5 years across India. Sistema currently has over 75,000 of such units in India and sees…
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Government-owned companies Oil India Limited (OIL) and Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) plan to build 8 to 10 CBG plants across Assam and other northeastern states. The initiative aims to address problems of waste management in…
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India-based company waste management company Organic Recycling Systems Limited (ORSL) has published its figures for the financial year 2024. Revenue amounted to INR 274.87 million (EUR 3.04 million), compared to INR 247.19 million (EUR 2.73…
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The proposed RDF plant in Pyaranagar, Telangana, is scheduled to be constructed and completed later in 2024. Commissioning is expected for December 2024. However, according to the source, the project has not yet been contracted…
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Finnish technology provider Valmet Oyj has announced the delivery of a recovery boiler upgrade to Kuantum Papers Limited in Punjab, India. The project has an estimated duration of 1 year, with installation scheduled for February…
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The Mysuru City Corporation, Karnataka, is proposing a new C&D waste recycling plant in Mysuru. It is to be set up in Sathagalli on a 9-acre plot. The future plant should extract metal from construction…
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SLMG Beverages is partnering with Dalmia Packaging to establish a PRF for plastic bottles. The plant is a JV between the two companies and planned to be located between the cities of Lucknow and Kanpur,…
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The Indian Ministry of Power (MoP) has announced a co-firing mandate. Coal-based thermal power generation utilities are obligated to incorporate 5% of biomass pellets from agricultural waste into their power generation annually. Compliance should be…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation has reportedly launched the tender for its WtE project in Kodungaiyur, Chennai. The future plant should process 2,100 tonnes (tpd as ecoprog understands) and generate 21 MW. In March 2024, it…
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According to recent sources, the WtE plant in Bidadi, Karnataka, has been completed through a collaboration between the Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL) and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). According to the source, the…
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Indian state-owned power utility NTPC is testing co-firing of biomass and coal at the Tanda thermal plant in Uttar Pradesh and at the Dadri plant. According to NTPC, larger use of biomass is possible with…
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The company Neelkanth Clean Fuel Private Limited plans the construction of a plant producing biogas, CBG, and biochar in Barkagaon, Jharkhand. Although the technology is not mentioned, pyrolysis could be assumed based on the products.…
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A biogas plant is currently under construction in Akhara, Punjab. Once operational, the plant should process organic waste to produce biogas. The plant is facing opposition from local residents who are calling for construction to…
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Local governments in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, demand about INR 90 million (EUR 10.1 million) from the state government for development works in the fiscal year 2024-25, including proposals for 12 so-called Govardhan plants. The plants…
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Indian gas company Adani Total Gas has published its financial results for Q4 of FY 2024. The company’s net profit increased by 71.6% to INR 1.68 billion (EUR 18.8 million), compared to INR 979 million…
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Nestlé India has announced plans to install nearly 70 large biodigesters and over 3,000 small biodigesters in 24 districts across Punjab and Haryana. The larger agricultural AD facilities should convert cattle manure into biogas for…
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The Municipality of Cuttack, Odisha, is planning to set up an eco-park by the end of June 2024. The eco-park is expected to include an e-waste recycling facility. According to the source, e-waste as well…
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Indian company Gruner Renewable Energy has secured CBG projects worth INR 15 billion (EUR 168.6 million) across India. Through the acquisition of 11 projects worth INR 11 billion (EUR 123.6 million) from an unnamed Indian…
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Indian cleantech start-up GPS Renewables has raised USD 50 million (EUR 46.6 million) in a debt financing round from banks and other companies. According to the source, the capital will partly be used for nationwide…
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Environmental services company EverEnviro Resource Management Pvt. Ltd. has announced that its CBG facility located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has now reached full operational capacity. 550 tpd of organic municipal waste are treated and converted…
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According to the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, 18.48 GWel of RES capacity was installed during FY 2023-24. This is an increase of 21% compared to the previous year. 9.43 GW of the newly…
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Indian renewable energy company LR Energy has commissioned a CBG plant in Karnal, Haryana, as part of India’s Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) initiative. The plant processes waste from the sugar industry and agricultural…
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Pondy Oxides & Chemicals Limited and the Government of Tamil Nadu have reportedly signed an MoU in January 2024, regarding the establishment of recycling and manufacturing facilities for non-ferrous metals, lithium-ion batteries, paper, plastics, and…
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The MSW treatment plant project at the Dadumajra (or Dadu Majra) landfill in Chandigarh has attracted two new bidders: Hindustan Waste Treatment Pvt Limited and Enviro Control Pvt Ltd. Previously, three companies had applied for…
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LIB recycling start-up Metastable Materials is planning to build a new battery recycling facility in Bangalore, Karnataka, in the coming two years. The company reportedly uses chemical-free technology to extract copper, cobalt, nickel, and lithium…
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Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation plans to set up a 50 tpd C&D waste recycling plant at the landfill in Ariyamangalam in Tiruchirappalli (also called Tiruchi or Trichy), Tamil Nadu. The project has been under consideration…
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Oil India Limited (OIL) and the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) have signed an MoU to convert MSW into CBG. They aim to set up CBG plants, presumably in the Guwahati Municipality, Assam. A specific project…
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The EU and India are partnering for EV battery recycling technologies. The collaboration reportedly aims to promote the cooperation between European and Indian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups. According to the source, matchmaking…
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The Technology Development Board (TDB) and start-up Remine India are collaborating to construct a commercial LIB recycling plant in the SIIDCUL industrial area of Sitarganj, Uttarakhand. The plant is also supposed to recycle e-waste. According…
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Chemical company Sabic has signed an LoI with Indian plastics recycler Pashupati Group. The LoI reportedly aims to develop plastic recycling opportunities in India. As part of the agreement, Pashupati is to provide its mechanical…
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Adani Total Gas has announced to have started operations of the first of three phases of its AD plant in the Mathura district of Barsana, Uttar Pradesh. The plant now processes 225 tpd of agricultural…
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Steamhouse India Limited has been awarded the contract for the design, engineering, construction, commissioning, operation, and maintenance of a WtE plant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The plant is to process 300 tpd of MSW and should…
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India-based infrastructure companies VishnuSurya Projects and Infra Limited (VSIL) have announced several MoUs with Hitachi Zosen India Private Limited and waste managing company AG Enviro Infra Projects Private Limited. The partnership’s first proposal is for…
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The Municipal Corporation Faridabad (MCF) has commissioned two MSW plants in Faridabad, Haryana. The plants each consist of two trommel machines and have a capacity of 400 tpd. Further plans provide to increase the daily…
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The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has announced to have inaugurated a CNG plant in Moshi, Maharashtra. The plant processes 50 tpd of food waste from hotels and restaurants to produce CNG for waste collection vehicles. The…
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The Abu Road Brahma Kumaris Institute has established an MSW processing Waste to Energy plant. Several campuses of the institute, including, amongst others, Shantivan, Anand Sarovar, and Manmohinivan, are used to gather the MSW. The…
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The Coimbatore Municipal Corporation has issued a tender for the planned biogas project at the Vellalore landfill in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. INR 600 million (EUR 6.61 million) have been allocated to the project. Construction is…
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Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) has inaugurated a new CBG plant in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The plant processes 200 tpd of paddy straw to produce 20 tpd of CBG. The EPC contract was carried out…
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Oil and gas company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), the Municipal Corporations of Raipur and Bhilai, and Chhattisgarh Biofuel Development Authority (CBDA) have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish compressed biogas (CBG)…
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The Tiruchi Corporation has launched a tender to develop a CNG plant at the Ariyamangalam landfill in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. The plant should be developed under a PPP. It should process 100 tpd of commercial…
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Renewable fuels company Nexgen Energia plans to invest RS 30 billion (EUR 332 million) to set up a compressed biogas (CBG) plant in Gujarat. Once operational, the plant should supply CBG directly to CNG pumps.…
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A compressed biogas (CBG) plant has been inaugurated in Dhuriyapar, Uttar Pradesh. Investment costs amounted to RS 1.68 billion (EUR 18.6 million). According to earlier sources, the plant should process 230 tpd of cow dung…
