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According to The New Indian Express, a currently shut-down biogas plant in Ajith Singh Nagar, Punjab, will not be revived again. Reportedly, the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation has not received any bids from companies in a…
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The Chief Minister of the federal state of Punjab has recently granted in-principle approval for nine biogas projects to be located across the state, according to Outlook India. The projects would entail a combined investment…
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Outlook India reports, that Verbio India Private Limited has received the approval letter by the Chief Minister of Punjab for its biogas project in the village of Bhutal Kalan, Lehragaga tehsil, Sangrur district. Verbio had…
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The WtE plant in Jawahar Nagar, which should be operational at the end of the year, is going to create higher costs than previously thought, as reported by The Hindu. Main reason for that should…
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According to The Times of India, the Solid Waste Management Project in Gurugam, Haryana, which should have a capacity of 100 MWel and will cost around INR 4.3 billion (EUR 55 million) is facing problems.…
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According to the report by the Centre for Science and Environment, the government of Delhi has issued a list of approved fuels. Biogas and Refuse-derived fuel (allowed only for waste-to-energy plants) are included. Furthermore, the…
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Joint venture CERO has opened a car recycling facility in Delhi. CERO is a partnership between Mahindra Accelo, a steel service subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra, and government-owned company MSTC, reports the Business Standard. According…
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According to Global CemFuel, UltraTech Cement’s Reddipalayam cement plant at Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, has started receiving MSW waste from the Vellore Municipal Corporation. The Reddipalayam cement plant normally treats RDF from a 150km radius but…
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As ecoprog reported last week, the Noida 123 Sector WtE project has been brought to a halt, due to the Chief Minister’s intervention. He ordered the plant to be relocated to a site outside of…
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Delhi-based private company AG Dauters Waste Processing Pvt Ltd proposed to start 20 WtE projects, similar to the one in Patna, in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana by 2019. However the…
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According to the Telegraph India, a Delhi-based private company has shown interest in establishing a waste-to-energy plant in the city of Patna. The company named AG Dauters Waste Processing Pvt Ltd proposed to convert 700…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) is setting up its first biogas plant on two acres of land near the Ghazipur dairy. The proposed facility should have a capacity of 2 MWel by processing 100…
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The housing and urban development department of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, has started construction of a plastic waste treatment plant at a dumping yard in Bhuasuni, Odisha, according to Telegraph India. As further reported, another plastic treatment…
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A new AD plant is being developed by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) Goa Campus, as The Times of India reported. The INR 14 million (EUR 175,541) project’s location has…
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The Times of India has reported that construction works for the Ghaziabad WtE plant are likely to begin soon, as the land acquisition process was completed recently. Indian company Accord Hydro was awarded the contract…
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The council of Navelim, north Goa, has issued a proposal to set up a biogas plant to solve the local garbage problem, according to Navhind Times. It should run on garbage from eateries and restaurants.…
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According to India Today, construction works for the controversial New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) WtE project in Sector 123 have been stopped by the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. As a consequence of strong public…
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According to The Economic Times, some obstacles in the area of Goods and Services Tax have caused a delay in the commissioning of the MBT projects to be developed at the Jaipur and New Delhi…
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According to The Times of India, after a delay of over two years, the tariff per unit of energy generated by the planned WtE plant in Brahmapuram has been determined. The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory…
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According to a report by The Economic Times, Essel Infra has won three tenders for the construction and operation of WtE projects in Kadapa, Anantpur and TP Gudem in South East India. According to Essel…
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There are plans for setting up small-scale AD plants at each of the 25 gaushalas (cow shelters) currently registered in the federal state of Rajasthan, according to The Hindu. The state government’s Gopalan Department will…
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Mumbai-based company Variate Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. is interested in constructing a WtE plant in Belgavi, Karnataka, as reported by the Economic Times. By cooperating with Korean firm POSH, it wants to generate power out of…
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The state government of Karnataka has decided to choose another location for the Gorur, Magadi taluk Waste-to-Energy plant. According to the report by the New Indian Express, the plant is likely to be moved to…
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According to Telegraph India, the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced that the municipality terminated the contract with the agency, which had been assigned to establish a Waste-to-Energy plant in Patna, Bihar. According to Patna’s…
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According to the Chief Minister of Karnataka, the state government is planning to establish Waste-to-Energy units in all the six municipal solid waste processing plants in the state. He emphasised on the use of WtE…
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One of the two landfills serving Dhaka city, the Matuail landfill, is expected to reach its full capacity in a few years, reported the Daily Star. The site is used by the Dhaka South City…
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According to The Daily Star, one of the two landfills serving Dhaka city, the Matuail landfill, is expected to reach its full capacity in a few years. The site is used by the Dhaka South…
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According to the Business Standard, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanfara Palike (BBMP) and French-based company 3Wayste have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a WtE plant in Chikkanagamangla. According to the MoU, BBMP will deliver…
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In March 2018, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has begun to cap the landfill in Jawaharnagar, which stores 14 million tons of garbage, as reported by Telangana Today. At the site, around 2,000 tpd…
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The Punjab Energy Development Authority (PEDA) has announced that the state will no longer buy power generated from biomass, because it is too costly, as reported by The Hindustan Times. The Indian Union Ministry of…
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The city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, has announced plans for a new WtE plant in Langdiyawas, according to the Economic Times. Currently, the city converts its MSW into compost, and the remaining amounts into RDF. According…
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American financial investor KKR is acquiring a 60 % share of India-based waste management company Ramky Enviro Engineers, reports the Economic Times. The deal is worth USD 600 million. Ramky Enviro is valued at USD…
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According to The Times of India, the controversial New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) WtE project in Sector 123, Uttar Pradesh, has entered the construction phase. Works began by constructing a landfill, which will be…
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Western Railway (WR) has installed an AD plant at the Mumbai Central railway station, according to the Financial Express. Construction of the plant cost INR 5 million (EUR 63,865) and it has a capacity of…
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According to The Times of India, the Hyderabad authorities are expecting to be able to generate 100 MW of electricity through 4 pending WtE projects coming up at Jawaharnagar, Old City, LB Nagar and Bibinagar.…
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The Vengadamangalam WtE plant in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, is in the process of terminating operations. Due to the Solid Waste Management Rules of 2016, which call for segregation and the decentralised processing of waste, the…
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Plans proceed for building a WtE plant in Deonar, a suburb of Mumbai, Maharashtra. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will now carry out a geological survey for a landfill, as the Indian Express reported. The company…
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The German municipal utility of Schwäbisch Hall is planning to fund a pilot energy and water provider project in Tamil Nadu, southern India. This was reported by Energate Messenger. The municipal utility intends to install,…
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According to Global CemFuel, UltraTech’s cement plant in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, will double its RDF intake from Tiruchirappalli (also known as Trichy). Changing an agreement from February 2018 to supply 30 tpy of RDF to…
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According to the Deccan Chronicle, preparatory works have now started at the 300 tpd Brahmapuram WtE facility in Kochi, Kerala. Reportedly, the Kerala state government has accelerated the process of granting final clearances for the…
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According to The Hindu, the City Corporation of Madurai, Tamil Naud, southern India, is working on plans to set up a small-scale biogas plant at the Thathaneri cremation and burial ground. The plant is estimated…
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The Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has announced a programme to support biomass CHP plants at sugar mills and other industrial sites. It will provide Central Financial Assistance (CFA) for newly installed boilers…
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Indian biogas company Rika Biofuels plans to invest up to USD 150 million (EUR 127 million) in 10 new bio CNG plants in Punjab, northern India, according to the Economic Times. The company has signed…
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Indian public utility NTPC has received three bids for its tender for supplying 1,000 tpd of fuel based on agricultural residues, as the Economic Times reported. The three companies offered to supply 250 tpd each,…
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As reported by the Free Press Journal, a small-scale AD plant will be constructed in the city of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. The installation of a biomethane plant is part of the so-called Smart City project.…
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The Yasasu Green AD plant, a joint project of the Pali Hill Residents Association (PHRA), the Brihanamumbais Municipal Corporation and technology provider Yasasu EMS, has started operations in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Located in Pali Hill in…
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Locals of five nearby villages have decided to address the Punjab and Haryana high court in their protest against the under construction WtE plant in Bandhwari, according to The Times of India. Their concerns about…
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According to The Times of India, 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…
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According to the Times of India, the AD plant at the Vellalore landfill in Tamil Nadu should be increased. An existing 100 tpd vermicompost plant should also be expanded by another 100 tpd. Additionally, according…
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Indian company Ecogreen Energy has won the tender for the contract of Haryana’s first Integrated Solid Waste Management Project until 2039. According to The Statesman, the project should include the segregation, transport and conversion of…
