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In a recent event, Patna Municipal Corporation has given an update on the establishment of the Patna WtE plant, as reported by The Times of India. It will be built at Ramchak Bairia, in the…
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Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has identified eight locations to set up small-scale biomethane plants, capable of processing 2 to 10 tonnes of kitchen waste daily. The produced energy will primarily be used to power street…
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The Okhla, Ghazipur and Bawana WtE plants have been blamed of causing environmental pollution in Delhi, according to the Financial Express. According to a joint inspection committee from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the…
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Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. has announced plans to develop a new 60 MW biomass plant in Punjab, following the closure of two thermal plants in Bathinda and Ropar with a combined capacity of 880…
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Import licenses for plastic waste that will expire in November 2018 have not yet been renewed by the competent Indian authority. As of now, there are 35 licencesed companies that can import waste plastics in…
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A biogas conference will take place at the Renewable Energy India Expo at the India Expo Centre, Delhi, on 20 September 2018. The programme includes discussions, presentations and networking opportunities. The event is being organised…
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According to The Asian Age, plans to build a plant using wet waste from a flower market in Dadar, Mumbai City, have failed. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) sewage department have not agreed to provide the…
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In the case of insufficient waste management from local authorities, the federal government of India has announced to undertake this task in the future. If the local authorities do not implement this municipal responsibility, the…
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According to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a schedule for the development of a WtE facility at the Pirana landfill in Ahmedabad, has been set by the state government. As reported by The Times of…
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Aluminium and copper producer, Hindalco Industries, plans to build an aluminium recycling and extrusion plant in Kutch, Gujarat, with an investment of INR 1,500 crores for the 300,000 tpy recycling plant, and INR 2,100 crores…
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Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has approved the proposal of AG Dauters to establish a WtE plant at Ramachak Bairiya on Patna-Gaya road. According to The Times of India, the plant will utilise plasma gasification technology…
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The Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Radha Mohan Singh, has recently urged Indian farmers to make use of new methods for treating crop residues, including biogas production. According to Devdiscourse, the government will allocate…
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Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) will meet on 13 September 2018 for issuing work order to A.G. Dauters Waste Processing Pvt Ltd. AG Dauters plans to set up a WtE plant with the capacity to convert…
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A proposed rice mill project, including a 6 MW biomass plant and a grain-based distillery, close to Sargiguda, Kalahandi district, Odisha, is not moving forward. In November 2016, the foundation stone for the complex was…
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The Standing Committee of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has approved a proposal for a new WtE project. The proposal comprises the construction of a 15 MW WtE plant, which is projected to be able…
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According to the mayor of Dhanbad, the city will be embarking on a comprehensive waste management project worth INR 2.7 billion (EUR 33 million). As reported by The Telegraph, the project will be executed in…
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As reported by The Times of India, the Agra Municipal Corporation is currently building a composting plant in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The source does not comment on the size of the composting facility. The plant…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation plans to build a biogas plant in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. According to The Times of India, the authority has already identified a site in the Naraich area. Groundworks at the facility,…
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On 29 August, the first phase of the so-called Gobar-Dhan scheme (Galvanising Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan) has started in the village of Nayagaon, Haryana. As reported in May 2018, the federal state of Haryana has…
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In preparation for the Hockey Men’s World Cup 2018, the City of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, is undertaking several works on infrastructure, including waste disposal. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced plans to build a 40,000…
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According to the Deccan Chronicle, private operating company Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd has received a termination notice from the Koyambedu market administration for failing to maintain operation of the biogas plant located at the Koyambedu…
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The Pune Cantonment Board has re-adjusted its floated tender towards establishing a waste management plant for processing wet and dry waste, according to The Times of India. As earlier reported in 2016, the board floated…
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The integrated vegetable market complex in Madurai will start to convert its vegetable waste into manure and also supply the AD plant at the crematorium in Thathaneri, Tamil Nadu Province, as reported by The Times…
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Chennai City Authorities have passed a council resolution that approves two WtE plants at the Kodungaiyur and Perungudi landfills. The Perungudi WtE site is said to have a power production capacity of 26 MWel, while…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) intends to develop a 5 MW WtE gasification plant in Kozhikode, Kerala, for which it will provide the land. The corporation first proposed the project in 2017, but…
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Construction works at the proposed 10 MW WtE plant in Brahmapuram, Kerala, have been further delayed, because the state’s Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), which has to issue the environmental permit for the project, has…
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According to The Daily Pioneer, the East Dheli Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has signed an agreement with Dheli-based waste processing company AG Dauters for the construction of a WtE gasification plant that will be fuelled with…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to shut down the Mulund landfill site in order to begin the Waste-to-Energy (WtE) project at Deonar. According to civic officials, the recovery of the Mulund landfill should…
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The New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) has announced that the garbage of sector 54 will soon begin to be processed in a remediation plant, reported The Times of India. The plant uses bio-culture to…
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According to an official, 3 of 8 transfer stations proposed for the city are already operational across Gurugram. The 3 stations are located at DLF Phase-V, Atul Kataria Chowk and Beri Wala Bagh. They have…
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The WtE facility in Achan, Srinagar City, Jammu and Kashmir, which should have been constructed within 18 months from 12 December 2017 onwards, has not made any progress, as was reported by The Greater Kashmir.…
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Bangalore-based realty company Sumadhura Group has formed a partnership with Indian WtE company GPS Renewables to install a WtE plant in Bangalore, Karnataka, at one of its construction projects, reports India Education Diary. The plant…
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According to Mercom India, the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has approved a program for the promotion of waste recovery called “Energy from Urban, Industrial and Agricultural Waste/Residue”. The MNRE will provide…
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As announced by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, construction work at the Bhalswa waste-to-energy plant will commence by the end of August. This will mark the city´s fourth WtE plant after Ghazipur, Narela-Bawana and Okhla.…
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Austrian AD plant manufacturer Biogest was contracted to build an agricultural biogas plant in Haryana, Northern India. As reported by Renewable Energy Magazine, the new unit will be developed in cooperation with OliveResolutions GmbH, Astron…
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The government of Rajasthan plans to build biogas plants at more than 2,800 gaushalas (cow shelters) in the state at costs of INR 10 million (EUR 124,000) each, according to the Daily News and Analysis.…
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A small-scale biogas plant that was successfully installed in Katraj, a suburb of Pune, Maharashtra, has been shut down two years ago, reported the Pune Mirror. The site has been used as a scrapyard ever…
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According to the source, the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) has signed a memorandum of understanding with an unnamed French company for the realisation of the Mavallipura WtE plant. The MoU is aimed at setting…
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According to local news reports, the Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has announced the construction of three further RDF production facilities. The plants shall be implemented in Cacora, Bainguinim and Verna. As Global CemFuels reported,…
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According to local news reports, the Public Authorities of Goa have approved approx. USD 12 million to upgrade the RDF facility at Saligao, which shall allow for it to double its RDF production capacity. The…
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According to data collected by the Indian Ministry of Power, the country’s federal states do not buy enough renewable energy (RE) to achieve the goal of an RE capacity of 175 GW by 2022. The…
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According to The Times of India, the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) is to build an INR 200 million (EUR 2.48 million) sorting plant at its site in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The source does neither comment…
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The Manohar Lal Khattar Government, Haryana, plans to set up bio-CNG and biogas units at all gaushalas (cow shelters) in the state of Haryana, according to the Daily Pioneer. Under a so-called Gobardhan scheme, biogas…
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According to Energy Infra Post, the installed biomass capacity in India grew from 4.95 GW in March 2016 to 8.4 GW at the end of 2017, so the country is likely to reach its target…
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According to United News of India, the governments of India and Oman are discussing the construction of a WtE plant in India. However the proposed capacities of the project disclosed in the source remain unrealistic.…
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The city corporation of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has announced plans to restore 10 small-scale currently dysfunctional community biogas plants. The plants are dysfunctional for several reasons, mainly due to a lack of proper operation, e.g. overloading.…
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According to Energy Infra Post, India’s capital Delhi has plans for setting up 10 biomethanation facilities across the city. The plants are expected to generate electricity to be fed into the grid as well as…
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Essel Infraprojects has announced the commencement of construction at Nagpur waste-to-energy plant in Maharashtra. This has been reported by United News of India. For this puropse, the company has set up a subsidiary, Nagpur Solid…
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For the implementation of its “Urban Solid Waste Management Initiative (USWMI)” the government of Kerala has earmarked INR 20 million (EUR 250,000) for waste management projects, as reported by The Times of India. The government…
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The city of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, currently plans to reopen a bio-methanation plant which was built in 2004 in Singh Nagar, Vijayawada, as reported by Deccan Chronicle. By doing so, the city hopes to generate…
