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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation projects a new AD plant in cooperation with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Najafgarh, Southwest Delhi. According to The Hindustan Times, the facility should process cow dung from surrounding…
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India is currently generating about 66 MW of electricity from municipal solid waste (MSW) daily. According to Energy Infra Post, the country hopes to increase this figure to 676 MW soon. Presently, the country has…
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The Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department of West Bengal projects a new facility near Dhapa to convert food waste and upgrade the produced biogas to BioCNG and Bio Carbon Dioxide. The project should also…
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According to The Pune Mirror, residents of Ramtekdi have filed a petition with the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) requesting to shut down Rochem Separations Systems Ltd’s waste-to-green energy plant. They claimed…
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A few months after the announcement that construction was to begin by May 2017, construction works on the Kochi WtE project still do not seem to be underway. The companies that are set to carry…
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According to the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), federal state of Maharashtra, the Bhandewadi Waste-to-Energy plant is expected to be completed within two years. The plant would be a joint venture of NMC, Essel Infraprojects Limited…
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A new waste plant with an AD unit will be constructed at the central railway station in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The proposal worth INR 4.4 million (EUR 58,289) raised by Western Railway has already been approved…
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Residents of the Bandhwari area, Haryana, have voiced their concerns over the local government’s plan to let a Chinese firm reconstruct the dysfunctional WtE plant in the city. An official meeting between the residents’ associations…
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The Bareilly Municipal Corporation (BMC), Uttar Pradesh, plans an AD plant using animal dung from stray and pet animals, according to The Times of India. While a pilot project is already being planned, the location…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is seeking the involvement of private companies to deploy their expertise for the remediation of the Kapuluppada landfill. The waste disposal site is located in a fast-growing port city,…
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The federal state of Kerala plans to conduct a waste survey between August 6 and 13, 2017 with the aim of using the data generated in planning projects on waste management. According to The News…
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A few months after Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) had terminated its contract with the Jaypee Group, the operator of the local RDF plant, the firm nevertheless seems to be involved in a new WtE project…
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In order to boost the faster implementation of new WtE projects all over the country, the Indian government has set aside the Green Clearance regulation, which had been an essential part of the approval process…
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After having opened the tender process around 2 weeks ago, the local authority of Bangalore, the Bruhat Bengalaru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has only received a few bids for the 5 planned WtE projects so far.…
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Several biogas plants are planned to be built in a proposed film city area to be built in the federal state of Bihar. As reported by The Times of India, Bihar Infrastructure Department Authority has…
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According to Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, 10 WtE projects, which are currently being implemented, shall be operational by the end of March 2018. This plan concerns projects in the following locations: Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Tadepalligudem,…
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The government of Haryana announced plans for new biogas plants in all over 400 gaushalas (protective shelters for cows) in the state for utilizing cow dung. First they focus on the construction of biogas plants…
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The Telangana government banned open burning of waste materials in open land and landfill sites with a violation charge of Rs 5000 for ‘simple burning’ and Rs 25,000 for bulk waste burning, according to The…
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The government of Haryana announced plans for new biogas plants in all over 400 gaushalas (protective shelters for cows) in the state for utilizing cow dung. First they focus on the construction of biogas plants…
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The Waste-to-Energy plant in the city of Panaji, Indian state of Goa, has increased its throughput remarkably over the first eleven months of operation, as reported by Nyoooz. The facility processes around 120 tpd of…
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The Waste-to-Energy plant in the city of Panaji, Indian state of Goa, has increased its throughput remarkably over the first eleven months of operation. According to Nyoooz, the facility processes around 120 tpd of waste.…
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As was stated by the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC), the location for the new WtE project has finally been identified. It will be the waste dumping site at Galand Village, close to the town of…
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According to the Daily Times, the Punjab government is seeking investors from China for participating in the restructuring of its urban water and sanitation system as well as improving municipal solid waste management. For this…
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Almost one year after the announcement of the project, new information has been given on the joined RDF project carried out by the cities of Gurugram and Faridabad, state of Haryana. Reportedly, a new waste…
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The Indian Government plans to intensify efforts in municipal solid waste management, Daily Kashmir Images reports. The Niti Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India ) has drawn a broader framework with a three-year action agenda…
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Even though Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) had been signed in 2014, there is still no progress on the sister-city agreement between the Indian city of Ahmedabad and the Chinese city of Guangzhou, DNA India reports.…
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Plans provide for setting up a new AD facility in the city of Sonipat, Haryana. As stated by The Statesman, the urban areas of Haryana are divided into 15 clusters. The plant should be erected…
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After having been defunct for several months due to huge piles of RDF and compost, 4 out of 6 waste treatment plants in the Bengaluru area, state of Karnataka, are up and running again, as…
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As was reported by local news source NYOOOZ, the local government of Tiruchi has decided for a company which is to carry out the new RDF project in Tiruchi, state of Tamil Nadu. The planned…
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The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) opens a bid for waste-to-energy plants at already operational waste segregation units, as reported by Bangalore Mirror. The plants will be located at Lingadheeranahalli, Koodlu, and Kannahalli with a…
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The biomass power plant in Chilakapalem, India, operated by Varam Power Projects, was shut down because the government stopped purchasing energy from the plant. According to the government, the reason for that decision is an…
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The Municipal Corporation at Pimpri Chinchwad in the State of Maharashtra has failed to initiate the WtE project at the Moshi garbage depot even one-and-a-half years after it was proposed. Over the past 15 years,…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a WtE plant in Bandhwari in the State of Haryana. According to officials, a Chinese…
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Indian renewable-energy producer OGPL sells most of its biomass business to its promoter company SVL Ltd. The price of OGPL’s biomass business amounts to EUR 37 million with a total capacity of 68 MW, excluding…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a WtE plant in Bandhwari in the State of Haryana, the Hindustan Times reports. According…
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As Delhi runs out of dumping ground, state-run generation utility National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has stepped in at the behest of South Delhi Municipal Corporation and agreed to set up a solid waste management…
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According to an article published by Tribune India, the Municipal Corporation (MC) of the city of Chandigarh intends to acquire 10 acres of land in Dadu Majra where it plans to erect a WtE plant.…
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As stated by Jaipur’s minister for urban development and housing, the new WtE project for Jaipur, Rajasthan region, is going to be carried out on a public-private-partnership (PPP) base, the Times of India reports. The…
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A budget of around EUR 200 million will flow into the installation of two new WtE plants at Kodungaiyur and at Perungudi. As was announced this week by the Times of India, the old landfills…
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In its latest hearing, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has come to the decision that the leader of the Shimla WtE project, Elephant Energy Private Limited, has until July 15th, 2017, to get the facility…
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A new WtE poject for the city of Mandur, Bengaluru, might face delays because of problems between the contractor and the local government, The Hindu reports. Even though the contracting firm, Messrs Srinivas Gayathri Resources…
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Currently, 8 out of 14 so-called community biogas plants (AD plants located at e.g. public markets or schools) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, are out of operation. As further stated by the Thiruvananthapuram health committee, the city’s…
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Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), in association with Elets Technomedia Private Limited, is organising a one-day National Waste Management Summit in Hyderabad on 24th June. WtE technology is among the topics being discussed at the…
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According to an official survey by the Jaypee University in Solan, around 680 tpd of municipal solid waste are being generated in the region of the three cities of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula. The population…
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Several months after a feasibility study for two new WtE projects in the Chennai area was initiated, the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) is now supposing a general action plan for solid waste management. There…
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The local government of Chandigarh is finalising its plans to build a new WtE plant at the site of the old Dadu Majra waste facility. The Dadu Majra plant is an RDF-plant, which has been…
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As reported by The Hindu, two companies have bidden for Expression of Interest (EoI) for the proposed RDF plant in Tiruchi. In a process that is expected to take three weeks, a corporation will scrutinise…
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As stated by municipal commissioner Chhavi Bharadwaj, the WtE plant in the region of Bhopal, state of Madhya Pradesh, shall be set up within the next six months, the Times of India reports. The exact…
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The Shimla WtE facility’s operator, Elephant Energy Private Ltd., has missed another deadline to get the plant operational. This is the third time that a deadline for the project could not be met, with the…
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Although the proposed RDF unit in Secunderabad Cantonment (in the surroundings of Hyderabad, Telangana) got the green light from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and financial assistance was secured, the project had to be set…
