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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pled company JITF to continue with its door-to-door waste collection and lifting works in the city of Bathinda until 31 January 2018. The company had earlier stated to seize…
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According to the newly elected mayor of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, the plans for a new WtE project in the area are still not off the table. Due to the fact that the local landfill is currently…
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According to The Hindu, the National Green Tribunal is planning to set up a new WtE facility in Vellalore, Tamil Nadu. The new plant should have an intake capacity of around 192,000 tpy of waste.…
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The proposed Kochi Waste-to-Energy plant in Brahmapuram has been criticised by the state-level monitoring committee on the Kerala Conservation of Paddy and Wetland Act. The committee stated that the plant will cause “disastrous ecological consequences”…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has reportedly signed a formal contract with consortium Spaak Bresson Private Limited (SBPL), its partner for the Agra WtE project. As said, the proposed plant will have a treatment capacity…
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According to the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, the WtE project planned for the village of Tekhand will have an envisioned intake capacity of 384,000tpy of waste. When operational, the facility will be able to produce…
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Jindal Infrastructure Limited (JITF) Company plans to set up an 8 MW solid waste treatment plant in Bathinda, Punjab. The company operates an RDF plant, which processes waste from the city along with 18 other…
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According to The Hindu, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi Chief Secretary and the Lieutenant-Governor to set up a meeting to determine an alternative site for a landfill site and also locate…
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A 20 MW Waste-to-Energy facility in Hyderabad, Telangana, will be receiving 2 semi-automated WtE cranes and 1 electrical overhead travelling (EOT) crane in June 2018. The cranes, which were manufactured by Finland-based company Konecranes, will…
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As reported by The Times of India, Spark Bresson Private Limited has applied to Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) (pollution control) authority for approval of a 10 MWel Waste-to-Energy facility in Agar City. The company wants…
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According to the commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCoGM), Maharashtra, the corporation is currently reviewing the Deonar WtE project due to a lack of bidders for the initial tender. He believes the…
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According to India’s North Corporation, the tender process for the WtE project in Bhalswa, Delhi, has officially been launched. The existing landfill in Bhalswa has been overflowing recently. An inspection of the respective landfill site…
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The government of the state of Himachal Pradesh has decided to establish 6 solid waste management plants through public-private partnership (PPP). The plants, which will cost Rs 50 crore (EUR 6.6 million) each, will be…
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According to the state’s chief minister, construction works at the planned WtE projects in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh seem to proceed at the moment. Reportedly, a total of 12 different WtE projects are…
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Contradictory to earlier information, the Vengadamangalam WtE plant in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, seems to have been operational ever since 2013. The WtE facility is being operated by Essel Group and accepts mixed solid waste from…
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As reported by The HANS INDIA, Telangana’s Minister of Municipal Administration & Urban development has requested Japanese delegates visiting the country to carry out a feasibility study of establishing an incineration plant in the state.…
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India’s National Green Tribunal has directed the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida authority) to build a WtE plant within the next 6 months, to be located in Sector 123 Okhla, New Delhi. As further…
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The proposed WtE project in the city of Jaipur, whose tender had been finalised 1.5 years ago, has still not been realised, according to DNA. The plant is going to be carried out on a…
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Building works on the proposed WtE plant in Brahmapuram, Kerala, have still not started. As stated by The New Indian Express, councillors have blocked any progress on the project. According to information from August 2017,…
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Update on the controversial plans for building a WtE plant at a landfill site in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. As reported by Telegraph India, citizens opposing the plant were asked by India’s National Green Tribunal in New…
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According to Nyoooz, the state government of Maharashtra has finally allocated the land for the Bhandewadi WtE project. The companies behind the project, Essel Infrastructure and Hitachi Zosen Inova, have officially received the land. The…
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According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the urban body has so far received two bids for the Mulund WtE project in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and no bids for the Deonar WtE project. The deadline for the…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Jaypee Group to run its waste processing plant in Dadu Majra at optimum capacity, according to Tribune India. The plant has a capacity of 550 metric tons…
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The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) has entered an agreement with the management of a 6 MW Waste-to-Energy plant in Pilakhuwa, Hapur, as The Times of India reported. The agreement will see GMC transport over 200…
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According to the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), construction works on the Waste-to-Energy project in Bhandewadi will commence soon. As reported by The Times of India, NMC further stated that a proposal had already been submitted…
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India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) is increasing the pressure on the local government of Srinagar regarding the implementation of the Achan WtE project, The Kashmir Observer reports. The local administration of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir,…
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As The Hindu BusinessLine reports, the WtE project in Kochi, Kerala, seems to be progressing and is currently seeking investors for its completion. The WtE facility is located at Willingdon Island and will be equipped…
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As reported by The Times of India, India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered the Noida Authority to build and make functional a waste-to-energy plant in Sector 123 of Noida, state of Uttar Pradesh near New-Delhi,…
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French firm 3WAYSTE has expressed interest in the installation of a new WtE plant at Chikkanagamangala, Bangalore. The local administration of Chikkanagamangala and firm associates have submitted a project proposal to the Urban Development Board…
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A meeting which will be led by the Chief Minister of Brahmapuram, state of Kerala, will be held this week at Thiruvananthapuram to finalise the allocation of the remaining four acres of land for Brahmapuram…
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The municipal council of Cuncolim, South Goa, has contracted Pune-based company Sampurn(e)arth Environment Solutions Pvt Ltd for the collection, segregation and treatment of the local waste which includes about 5 tonnes of mixed waste per…
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As was stated by APN Live, the WtE project at Vadodara (state of Gujarat), which had first been discussed in 2014, seems to be nearing completion. Reportedly, the Indian Prime Mister himself will inaugurate the…
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After a fire struck the Ghazipur landfill in East Delhi on 15 October, the local administration is now intensifying its efforts to build a new WtE facility at the Ghazipur site, NDTV reports. According to…
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As reported by The Hindustan Times, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for the Bandhwari WtE project on 14 October 2017. The involved parties were the local bodies of Faridabad (state of Haryana9…
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According to government officials, around 15 private companies have already expressed their interest in the Noida WtE project. The local bodies already reviewed those applications until 7 October 2017 and are still in the process…
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After being on trial run for the past two months, the WtE plant at Ghazipur landfill site in Delhi shall be commissioned this month, as reported by The Hindustan Times. Once in operation the plant…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has officially ordered the Pollution Control Board to collect air quality samples around the Okhla WtE plant in Delhi once in every four months from now on, NDTV reports. Furthermore,…
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According to The Times of India, the implementation of the Agra WtE project, Uttar Pradesh, seems to make progress. Reportedly, a power purchase agreement was signed on 6 October, between the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation…
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The status of the WtE project in Deonar, Mumbai, remains unclear. Even though the bidding process for the project had been opened, the project obviously failed to attract any bidders, the Mumbai Mirror reports. The…
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According to state health minister Anil Vij, the Haryana state government has approved about EUR 78 million for setting up a Waste-to-Energy plant in Ambala, the Business Standard reports. The plant will be constructed in…
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In a visit to the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) headquarters, Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal discussed on issues of solid waste management, The Hindu reports. The waste processing capacity of the WtE plant in Ghazipur should…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has floated tender for a new Waste-to-Energy plant in Dwarka, following the directive to stop dumping waste at the existing landfill sites. The SDMC has already identified a plot…
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As Zeebiz reports, JBM Group has signed a concession agreement with the Haryana state government to build and operate a 5 MW power plant in Sonepat. This plant will treat 500 tons of municipal waste…
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India-based NTPC Ltd. (National Thermal Power Corporation) is inviting companies to place bids for new WtE projects under the government’s Swachh Bharat programme. The Swachh Bharat campaign serves the aim of promoting cleanliness and sustainability…
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The local government of Pratapgarh City and company Wonder Cement have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the co-incineration of the area’s solid waste at the firm’s cement plant in Nimbahera, Pratapgarh City, Rajasthan.…
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As the WtE plant in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, is still not functional, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the plant’s private operator to take the garbage of Shimla to the Ambuja cement plant in…
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As reported by The Hindu, the Indian capital is speeding up the process of increasing its incineration capacities. In accordance with Delhi’s administration, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation aims at building two new WtE plants…
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The Punjab government has been ordered by India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) to support the operator of the Bathinda WtE project in order to expand the RDF facility by another WtE unit. Moreover, the NGT…
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Some days after a part of the Ghazipur landfill in Delhi collapsed and killed two people, Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal has ordered the municipal corporations to increase their waste processing by using the existing capacity as…
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According to The Times of India, the Devguradia WtE project in the state of Madhya Pradesh should be completed by 2019. Under the project, a facility with an electricity generation capacity of 20 MW is…
