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According to The Tribune, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) has appointed consultants to assist on its proposed WtE project. As said by CMC officials, the consultants would provide help to finalise terms and conditions and…
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As reported by The Indian Express, India’s National Green Tribunal has ordered company Jaypee Group (JP) to resume operations at it’s Chandigarh RDF facility until 27 July. A case was filed by the Chandigarh Municipal…
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As reported by The Times of India, Kerala’s government will review the Rs 295 crore Brahmapuram WtE proposal again as there are too many unsettled points. According to the Minister for Local Administration, there are…
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According to The Times of India, three biomethane projects which were proposed for the City of Chandigarh have not yet been realised. Plans for the projects are dating back years. According to a recent news…
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As reported by The Times of India, a new small-scale biogas plant has been commissioned in the City of Chandigarh. The plant was officially inaugurated by Parimal Raithe, advisor to the administration, at Sood Dharamshala,…
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According to Business Standard, German company Heraeus, recycler of reforming catalyst, is to open a facility in Udaipur, Rajasthan, to recover precious metals from spent petroleum catalysts. The plant will be operated by Ravindra Heraeus,…
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As reported on IIFL, Essel Infraprojects Ltd, an Essel Group subsidiary, has been honoured with the Golden Peacock Eco-Initiative Award by India’s Energy Minister for the technical process of their Jabalpur WtE plant. The 219,000…
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According to The Times of India, The Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), Maharashtra, is looking into implementing a WtE process to improve the city’s waste management. However, this seems a long-term goal, as AMC plans improve…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), Haryana, has initiated plans to process the city’s waste in order to produce electricity. It is envisaged to install 4 AD plants with a combined capacity of up to…
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According to The Times of India, the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (HPERC) has determined a feed-in tariff for the WtE plant proposed by the city authorities of Shimla. Under the ruling, the State Electricity…
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The Coimbatore Corporation has received the permission of the State Government of Tamil Nadu for establishing a recycling plant to recycle C&D waste at a cost of EUR 157,094 through a PPP project. The plant…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has proposed an AD facility in the Ghazipur area, New Delhi, the Millenium Post reports. The facility is planned to have a total capacity of 20,000 tpy of manure…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) plans a recycling plant for construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Because of an increase in C&D debris the plant would be needed. A developer isn’t…
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The Deccan Herald reports that the council of ministers has recently granted in principle approvals for a proposal to build three integrated solid waste management parks near Bengaluru. The proposal was brought up by the…
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Bengaluru has received multiple offers by firms to turn the city´s solid waste into electricity, The Deccan Herald reports. According to agents of the firms the heating value of Bengaluru´s garbage would be adequate to…
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India’s decision to ban imports of scrap plastics keeps the plastic recycling market in suspense and will most probably lead to significant job losses in the Indian recycling industry as the president for waste plastics…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) is apparently planning to set up a WtE facility with a treatment capacity of 400 tpd, The Indian Express reports.. As said, the new facility is supposed to be built…
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The Southern Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) announced plans to set up a new WtE facility. As said, the plant would be located adjacent to the existing Okhla WtE facility and should have a treatment capacity…
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The WtE project in Hyderabad, Telangana, has still not received any governmental support, The New Indian Express reports. The proposed plant would process 2,000 tons of garbage daily in order to reach a capacity of…
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As stated by the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC), an RDF plant in Langadiawas near Jaipur will reach full capacity utilisation in this year’s September. JMC also plans to move forward on a discussed 700 tpd…
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The state government of Karnataka has proposed to set up a waste and recycling park near Madhugiri, Tumakuru District. As stated by an city official of Bengaluru, Karnataka’s state capital, the site would include a…
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Conglomerate company Maersk Group has announced that it will send its first two container ships to the Alang ship breaking site in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, this month. The ships Maersk Wyoming and Maersk Georgia will both…
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After trial operations of the 100 tpd MBT project in Saligao, Goa, started on 1 April, the facility has now been officially commissioned, The Navhind Times reports. It includes an RDF production line, a biogas…
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After facing an undue delay already, Bhuasuni’s Municipal Solid Waste facility has to deal with another problem, the New Indian Express reports.. The plant should treat biodegradable, combustible and recyclable content of the solid waste.…
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As stated by a lawyer representing local residents, the operator of the Okhla WtE plant in New Delhi has allegedly made false claims about the existence of RDF and biogas units at its site, The…
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As revealed by the Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC), company Spark has been selected to deliver AMC’s planned WtE project, the Times of India reports. Even though no exact capacity figure was given, the AMC said…
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The WtE project at the Bhandewadi dumping yard in Nagpur, Maharashtra, has been granted support of Rs 96 crore (about EUR 12.8 million) by the central and the state’s government. Rs 70 crore will be…
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Indian wind and biomass power plant operator Orient Green Power Co Ltd has published its financial results for the fiscal year 2015/2016. Total revenues decreased from around EUR 66 million to EUR 52 million during…
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Project developer Essel Infraprojects has announced to have successfully commissioned a 11.5 MW WtE plant in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. According to earlier sources, the plant will be operated by a PPP consisting of Essel and…
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According to project developer Ramky Group, the Narela Bawana WtE plant in North West Delhi might start operations in June, The Hindu reports. Ramky is developing the plant on behalf of the North Delhi Municipal…
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According to a government official, India’s state of Karnataka is to unveil a WtE policy soon. It was already announced that the scheme includes plans to set up 4 WtE plants, one in each of…
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The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has determined a feed-in tariff for the planned Kolhapur WtE plant. The project is being developed by Kolhapur Green Energy Private Limited (KGEPL), a special purpose vehicle formed by…
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The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) will build 2 biogas projects at Kasba Bawda and at Kalamba, Kolhapur. Each plant will process 5 tpd of food waste from hotels, households and restaurants, entailing investments of EUR…
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After the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) government had originally agreed to shut down or relocate the Okhla WtE plant in New Delhi because it reportedly does not adhere to emission standards, the Delhi Pollution Control…
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India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) was said to have classified plasma pyrolysis as an accepted incineration process for biomedical and municipal solid waste. As stated, India currently has 11 plasma pyrolysis units, all…
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The country’s Ministry Of Urban Development (MUD) has announced to expect 10 WtE facilities to become operational in the state of Andhra Pradesh during the years 2017 and 2018. The plants should have a combined…
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Indian Overseas Bank has taken over a biomass plant of Global Power Tech Equipments (GPTL), subsidiary of Orient Green Power Company. The bank announced this decision after GPTL was not able to fulfil payment requirements.…
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Steel services company Mahindra Intertrade will partner with state-controlled MSTC Ltd. on building an automobile shredding and recycling plant in India. Mahindra has not disclosed the exact investment costs but it was said that the…
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The government of the state of Punjab has dropped its plans to set up a 13 MW WtE facility in the village of Jamsher. The plant was supposed to serve the 27 Urban Local Bodies…
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As a Detailed Project Report (DPR) is currently being prepared, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is looking to hold a tender in June to find an operator for its planned Deonar WtE facility. BMC previously…
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The Bawana WtE project has apparently stalled because of a dispute between the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and project developer Ramky Group on revenue sharing. The Bawana WtE plant is planned to have a…
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The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has announced to start construction works at its WtE project by the end of this May. KMC already awarded a construction and operations contract to company Rochem Separations Limited more…
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According to the city’s deputy mayor, a WtE plant is currently being discussed in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The proposed facility would have a generation capacity of 2 MW and treat 80 tpd of waste, which…
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The Ghazipur WtE plant is still in trail operations. As stated, the facility was already completed several months ago, but the government has not yet granted an approval for operations. The plant is said to…
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The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is expected to impose new waste legislation soon, following the union government’s 2016 Solid Waste Management Rule. The proposed policy includes a measure forbidding high calorific non-recyclable waste to…
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A WtE project is currently being proposed in the city of Ongole, Andhra Pradesh. According to a project report by Delhi-based company IPE Global Private Limited, the plant would have a treatment capacity of 200…
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Lead producing company Gravita India has entered into aluminium recycling at its recycling plant in Phagi, Jaipur. According to company officials, the initial capacity for the treatment of aluminium scrap will amount to an approximate…
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The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is going to set up a Construction and Demolition of Waste Processing Plant (CDWP) in Karnataka. The facility will cost around USD 870,000 and is planned in collaboration with the…
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Construction of the WtE plant planned in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, has still not begun. Apparently, the main reasons for the delay are conflicts about the feed-in tariff for the electricity to be produced. However, older sources…
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The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Punjab has claimed that the potential for small-scale biomass power plants in Punjab is not fully exploited. To overcome the national energy crisis, it is essential to…
