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In an attempt to clear the landfill site in Mysuru, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) plans to treat 200,000 tonnes of waste. A small part of biodegradable waste will be used as compost, while the…
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The Peringamala WtE plant has been proposed to be built on a 15-acre plot belonging to the District Agro Farm. The proposed plant will cost INR 390 crores. The plan is currently being challenged by…
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According to The New Indian Express, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner, Manjunath Prasad, has recently stated that a proposal was sent to the state government for the use of land in Kannalli and…
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The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has received administrative approval for an INR 12.56 crore project to upgrade its Pachchanady solid waste management plant. According to www.thehindu.com, the project entails the installation of two pre-sorting machines,…
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According to The Telegraph India, a 20-acre plot has been selected for setting up a waste recycling centre for processing waste from New Town, Bidhannagar and three boroughs of the city. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been…
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As reported by The Herald, a solid waste management plant will be built by Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) in Banguinim, Goa. The total cost is expected to amount to INR 248.5 crores. The plant…
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Energy technology company, Abellon CleanEnergy Limited, has entered a technical agreement with German AD plant manufacturer, Agraferm Group, to develop several biogas projects. The first phase will consist of setting up plants only in Gujarat…
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Tata Steel is planning to build a steel recycling plant in Rohtak, Haryana, with an annual processing capacity of about 500,000 tonnes, costing INR 48 crores. According to Recycling International, Tata Steel expects the plant…
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According to local news reports at The Times of India, the planned RDF production facility in Bainguinim will be fast-tracked to commence waste processing. An official stated that the plant was expected to be commissioned…
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According to Mercom India, the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has released a tender for a 54 MW solar-biomass hybrid project, consisting of a 6 MW biomass plant and four 12 MW solar projects, which…
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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation WtE plant has started generating energy from waste. According to The Times of India, the plant produced 12 MW of electricity from processing 1500 tonnes of waste at its first run.…
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Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has announced that six acres of land will be given to a consortium comprising of Brazilian firm, Lara Enviro, and Anthony Enviro Private Ltd., for the construction of Moshi garbage depot.…
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The Tiruchirappalli Corporation and Dhandapani Cements have signed a MoU to co-incinerate 3 tonnes per day as RDF in the cement kilns. According to The Times of India, inert waste which cannot be composted, will…
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As reported by The Hans India, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has built a C&D waste recycling plant at Jeedimetla, Hyderabad, with a processing capacity of 500 tonnes per day. Trial runs at the…
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In January 2018, an INR 120 crore contract to construct a 5 MW WtE plant in Achan, Kashmir, was awarded to a consortium of companies including Highland Automobiles Private Ltd., Key Stone Energy Ltd. and…
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A 7.5 MW WtE plant has been planned to be built in the Ramtekdi business district near Pune city. It is proposed to process 300 tonnes of waste daily and will be located close to…
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The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) have founded a joint venture (JV) towards the establishment of a WtE plant. According to the source, Mercom India, the WtE facility will…
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According to The Hindu, the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has recently signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Kochi-based GJ Eco Power, the company implementing the Brahmapuram WtE plant. According to the agreement, KSEB…
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According to the source Times of India, a 1.5 MW WtE plant in Manali will be operational within the next days. Information regarding the technology employed by the plant has not been stated in the…
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According to The Deccan Herald, the construction of a 500 tpd WtE plant in Chikkanagamangala is expected to commence in three months. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stated that the site will be inspected…
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A committee appointed by the Supreme Court has approved the setup of a 10 MW WtE plant in Agra, following an expert review on the environmental impact of the plant. The WtE facility, which has…
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The development of a WtE facility at the Bhandewadi landfill site has faced several problems so far, as ecoprog reported. Operator Essel Infraprojects, which is partnering with Hitachi Zosen India Private Ltd., has now proposed…
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As reported by The Times of India, a new waste management plant is currently being built in Shivri. The facility, which has been designed to convert 1,500 tonnes of waste into 15 MWel per day,…
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The Daily Pioneer reports that Delhi Metro has announced to have started receiving 2 MWel from the 12 MW WtE plant located in Ghazipur, from June 2019. The RDF-fired plant, set up by East Delhi…
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An Indian Government official has recently stated that the development of biogas and biogas upgrading units to substitute LPG should be brought into focus, which is expected to affect urban areas in particular. India’s energy…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has announced its first WtE plant with a processing capacity of 300 tpd to be set up in Njeliyanparama in Kozhikode. The project cost is estimated to be…
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The Times of India reports that the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has threatened to terminate the WtE project contract with Essel Infraprojects Private Ltd. and Hitachi Zosen India Private Ltd. due to the delay in…
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Although the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) has already allocated land for the biogas project at Tajpur Road in Buddha Nallah, Punjab, it has not yet been built, as it is still unclear if…
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The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has approved two power purchase agreements (PPA) that had been signed between Accord Hydroair (Pikhuwa) Private Limited and Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) in April 2018. According…
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Finnish technology company, Valmet has reported that it is going to deliver a recovery boiler and ash leaching plant to ITC’s Bhadrachalam pulp mill, to replace three existing boilers. Start-up is expected for late 2021.…
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According to reports from the Indian Express, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has extended the tender for the WtE facility for another month, as no bidder was found. The tendering process started over a year…
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Costs for the 8 MW Brahmapuram WtE plant in Kochi, have increased from INR 295 crores to INR 375 crores due to inaccurate estimations, the Times of India reports. The facility is being developed as…
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According to the source, The Deccan Herald, an unnamed French company shall be operating the two planned 1,000 tpd WtE plants in Chikkanagamangala and Doddabidarakallu, in Bangalore. The French company shall convert mechanically segregated waste…
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As reported by the New Indian Express, the Kochi Municipal Corporation (KMC) had to decide whether it will lease 20 acres of land to construction company, GJ Eco Power Private Ltd., for the planned WtE…
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The establishment of a WtE plant in Deonar, Mumbai, has already faced several serious challenges, as ecoprog reported earlier. Due to the failure of stopping the tender, Bombay High Court had extended the permission to…
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The state government has asked the Thiruvananthapuram City Corporation to identify suitable plots of land for the proposed WtE facility in Peringamala, The Times of India reports. Although the local governmental body has started work…
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According to local media reports, the announced RDF plant, which should be constructed at the Vellalore landfill, is planned to have a treatment capacity of 600 tpd. Furthermore, Switzerland-based NGO International Council for Local Environmental…
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The Business Standard reports that Oriental Green Power Company Ltd. (OGPCL) plans to sell its shares of biomass subsidiary, Sanjog Sugars and Eco-Power Pvt. Ltd. (SSEPPL), to Soorya Eco Power Pvt Ltd (SEPPL). OGPCL holds…
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Uflex Ltd., a packaging firm, has announced the investment of INR 5 crores in a pyrolysis plant at its site in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, as well as in a plastics recycling facility. The pyrolysis plant,…
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The WtE plant being constructed at the Jawharnagar landfill in Hyderabad will commence operations in June, as confirmed by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in a report of Telangana Today. The 30 MW plant will…
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Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is planning to set up 9 decentralised Waste Managements Plants, to process 5 tonnes of organic waste each, daily. One other plant is already operational in Punjabi Bagh. The technology…
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The 100 MW WtE plant in Gurugam, Haryana, has not yet received an environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment, the Hindustan Times reports. As ecoprog reported earlier, the plant will cost around INR 430…
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Construction of the planned 11.5 MW Bhandewadi WtE plant in Maharashtra, has been delayed once again, the Times of India reports. Essel Utilities, responsible for building the plant, has assured that construction phase will begin…
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has now signed a concession agreement with 3Wayste, which will have to commission the sorting plant within 6 months, and the WtE plant within 1 year. BBMP is required to…
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The company operating the Okhla WtE plant has been served with a show-cause notice to explain “why its Environmental Clearance (EC) granted in 2007 should not be kept in abeyance”, The Hindustan Times reports. After…
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As The Times of India reports, Chandigarh Smart City Company Limited has tendered the INR 40 crores mining project to clear the garbage dump in Dadumajra. In a period of 180 days, 500,000 tonnes of…
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According to the Times of India, the planned WtE project in Galand faces problems as only 18 acres of the 36 acres necessary have been acquired. As reported earlier by ecoprog, Ghaziabad Development Authorities (GDA)…
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The cities of Amritsar, Bathinda, Mohali, Rupnagar, Moonak, and Nawanshahr, in Punjab plan to set up WtE plants, as was reported by The Economic Times. For this purpose, the government of Punjab intends to introduce…
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Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has approved a power purchase agreement (PPA) between Haryana Power Purchase Center (HPPC) and RSL Distilleries Pvt Ltd. (RSL). According to Mercom India, HPPC will purchase 3 MW from RSL’s…
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According to the Indian Express, Bombay High Court has extended the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) permit to dispose waste at the Deonar landfill until 31 December 2019. As reported in March 2018, the 600 tpd…
