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The 1.5 MW WtE plant in Bhariyal, Shimla, has not reached its full energy generation capacity, although it has been two years since operations have commenced. As gasification machinery has not been installed yet, around…
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Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has determined new generic tariffs for electricity produced from WtE projects at INR 6.28 per KWh. As reported by Mercom India, The new tariff will be effective from 1…
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Construction work at the WtE gasification project at the Ghazipur landfill has not commenced yet, as the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) is waiting for a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the competent ministry. In…
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Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has allocated a 42.5 acres in Ghonda Gujran to East Delhi Municipal Corporation for establishing an integrated waste management facility, as was reported by the Hindustan Times. The facility will include…
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According to the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), an Intergrated Waste Management Facility including a WtE plant, a biomethanation plant and a C&D debris processing facility will be constructed at the Narela-Bawana landfill site. After…
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Construction has commenced in a scrap-fed aluminium alloy plant in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. According to recycling today, the project, developed by Daiki Aluminium Industry India, will be capable of processing 84,000 tonnes of aluminium…
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According to Construction Week Online, National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) has announced that its Karsada WtE pilot project in Varanasi has been able to achieve full load generation. The plant has an installed capacity…
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Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) is planning to determine new tariffs for WtE plants. As reported by The Hindu, the new tariff of INR 5.65 per unit for a period of 20 years, will come…
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Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (RERC) has amended regulations for tariff determination of renewable energy projects, including biogas, which were initially passed in 2015. According to Mercom India, the new regulations will come into force once…
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Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has now terminated the contract of the Mumbai-based Essel Infra Projects, assigned to handle door-to-door garbage collection and set up a WtE plant at Jhiri. According to The Telegraph, the municipal…
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According to DNA India, the WtE facility in Deonar has faced another delay. After ecoprog reported in February that the facility has extended the bidding deadline by another month, it has now been postponed until…
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Palanpur-based Banas Dairy is planning to build four biogas plants at its site in Banaskantha District, Gujarat, to generate 2,000 cm³ of biogas. According to The Times of India, the total cost for the project…
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Kannur Corporation is planning to replace the landfill at Chelora with a WtE facility, similar to the 11.5 MW WtE plant in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, which has been operational since 2016 and has an annual…
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Punjab Renewable Energy Systems (PRESPL), an Indian biomass supplier, plans to raise around inr 69.55 crores in a Series B funding round, according to Bioenergy Insight. The company plans to obtain INR 34.77 crores from…
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India completely bans import of plastic waste; a transition period has been announced till 31 August, after which the ban will come into effect. As reported by EUWID, a ban was already in place, but…
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According to The Times of India, Essel Infraprojects Private Ltd has assured Nagpur Municipal Corporation that the planned 11.5 MW WtE facility is on schedule, despite the company’s financial hardships. Essel Private has secured a…
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Foundation works have been completed at the construction site of a biomethanation plant in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. According to The Times of India, the project located near the RS Puram farmers market is expected to…
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Engineering and manufacturing company, Thyssenkrupp Industries India Pvt. Limited, has signed a 10 year licensing agreement with Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S for its biomass boiler technology, a water-cooled vibrating grate, for application in India…
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The construction of the WtE facility in Mussoorie, Dehradun, is likely to start in March 2019. According to Hyderabad-based company Ramky, which is responsible for setting up the facility, the construction work and commissioning will…
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Construction has begun on the first phase of the Daighar C&D incineration plant. As reported by DNA India, the Thane Municipal Corporation is hoping that both phases of the project will be operational by autumn…
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According to The Times of India, Munnar and Devikulam panchayats have signed a concession agreement with New Delhi-based AG Dauters Waste Processing Private Limited to build, own, operate and maintain (BOOM) a WtE plant in…
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Following a decision by the President, the Renewable Energy Research and Technology Development (RETD) programme will be continued into 2020. As reported by Mercom India, the programme is managed by the Ministry of New and…
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India’s Supreme Court has asked the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to examine a proposal to build a WtE facility in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. According to the…
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The Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL) has initiated the tendering process to construct a RDF incineration plant in Bidadi. According to dailyhunt, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and KPCL signed a memorandum of understanding on…
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As reported by The Times of India, the newly appointed Commissioner of Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation, Dinesh Chandra, has released a statement detailing his priorities. Foremost, the dumping of civic waste following the barring of the…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has extended the bidding deadline for the WtE project in Deonar by another month, as reported by The Indian Express. This comes after the four bidders interested in the project…
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The Kerala State Commission for Minorities has directed the authorities in Kanjirapally, Kerala, to restore a biogas plant at the town hall, to manage the serious waste management problem in the region. As reported by…
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In a deal valued at INR 3,630 crores, global investment firm KKR has acquired a 60% stake in city-based environment solutions provider, Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL). This is said to be the largest foreign…
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As reported by The New Indian Express, the state budget of Karnataka has allocated INR 2,300 crores to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) administrative body for 6 projects this year, including a 400 tpd…
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The Government of Chennai, Tamil Nadu has now set aside INR 5,259.1 crores for the construction of WtE plants at the Kodungaiyur and Perungudi dumpsites. According to The Times of India, the plants will be…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for the disposal and management of solid waste in its area. According to The Hindu,…
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Construction works on a new construction and demolition waste processing site in Mulund, Mumbai, will commence in June 2019, as The Times of India reported. INR 4.5 crores have been allocated for this project. Two…
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According to an official from the Municipal Administration and Urban Development, there is a possibility of commissioning the 19.8 MW Hyderabad WtE plant by December 2019, as construction works are progressing well at the facility.…
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After a Japanese delegation executed an extensive study in Warangal for the development of a WtE facility, representatives, led by Director International Cooperation Department for Waste Management, Clean Authority Tokyo, met with the Principal Secretary…
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Construction works for a new 600 tpd construction and demolition waste recycling facility at the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai have been scheduled to commence this year, as The Asian reports. Picture Credit: User:Petr K,…
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According to a report by The Times of India, the plans of a proposed site visit to Peringamala, Thiruvananthapuram, for construction of a WtE facility, has been postponed on Monday. The state government has decided…
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In the process of finding a long-term solution for the waste disposal problems in Kollam, Kerala, the city is going to install a new WtE facility, with a processing capacity of 200 tpd, at the…
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The IIT-Delhi Alumni Association (IITDAA) has adopted 25 village clusters located in the Mitraon area Village Adoption Program Under Swachchta Initiative (VAPUSI), according to The Times of India. IITDAA is planning to undertake several infrastructural…
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The planned 25 MW WtE facility in Bandhwari, Haryana, will mostly miss its first deadline in August 2019, according to The Times of India. The application, submitted in October 2018, has not been approved by…
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According to The Times of India, Delhi is currently planning the construction of four more WtE facilities. Two projects have been proposed by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation at Narela-Bawana and Bhalswa. These facilities will…
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According to Nyoooz, the Municipal Corporation of Bhubaneswar (BMC), Odisha, has invited private parties to discuss setting up a biogas plant. After the discussion, the BMC will issue a request for proposal (RFP) and form…
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United Global Trust is planning to setup a new electronic waste recycling facility in Guwahati, Assam, which will serve eight states in northeast India. The project is supported by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).…
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The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is planning to build a C&D waste recycling facility in the village of Kuppaluru, Mysore, Karnataka, on an area of 5.5 acres. According to the Star of Mysore, C&D waste…
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NTPC Limited has started co-firing biomass at its 2,650 MW coal-fired Dadri power plant in Greater Noida, as the Times of India reported. In one unit of the plant, the company co-fires a share of…
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According to The Pioneer, the WtE facility in Okhla, South Delhi, is asking for permission to expand its present generation capacity from 16 MW to 40 MW. Therefore, it would have to process 680,5000 tpy…
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After the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) floated a tender for a WtE facility in Kozhikode, three additional tenders for WtE facilities in Kollam, Palakkad and Kannur will be released by the end of…
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The MBT facility in Kolhapur, which is already operational, is waiting for official permission to start commercial operations, according to The Times of India. A two-member expert team has collected samples of the RDF processed…
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According to The Indian Express, four bidders interested in the WtE facility in Deonar, Mumbai, have asked for extension to estimate the calorific value of the waste that will be burned in the plant and…
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The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has approved power purchase agreements (PPA) for four paddy straw-fuelled biomass projects with a total capacity of 49.8 MW, as Mercom India reported. The PPAs were signed by the…
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The source provides an update on the WtE project by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in Bidadi. BBMP has already signed a MoU with Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL). It is estimated that the 500…
