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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticized the poor monitoring and delays in obtaining clearances for a waste-to-energy plant project at the Deonar landfill in Mumbai. Only 10% of the work on the project…
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The Waste to Energy project in Daighar, Thane City, Maharashtra, is expected to begin its first phase of operations in two to three months. The second phase is also expected to start in the coming…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has completed the tendering process for a new waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Bawana, with a capacity to process 3,000 tonnes of waste per day. This will be the fifth…
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The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has accepted recommendations to convert dry waste into RDF and wet waste into biomethane and compressed natural gas at its proposed 600 tpd integrated waste management facility. Tender to be…
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The WtE project in Brahmapuram, Ernakulam district, Kerala, is still under discussion. According to the source, the Kochi Corporation has announced that an all-party meeting on this long-standing project will be held soon. According to…
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Delhi government has recently submitted a status report to the National Green Tribunal (NGT). As per the report, Delhi generated 11,332 tpd of MSW on an average. As further stated, there are currently four WtE…
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In a major effort to reduce waste contamination and promote greener cities, 14 more Madhya Pradesh districts will construct bio-remediation facilities. The projects are estimated to cost roughly Rs 44 crore. “Bio-remediation will be used…
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is implementing 90 projects under its Waste to Energy program. Union Minister of Power Mr. R K Singh informed the Lok Sabha that these projects include 7 biogas…
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Public consultations have been launched for the planned capacity increase at the Narela-Bawana WtE plant in Delhi. Plans provide to increase the plant’s capacity from 24 MW to 60 MW. At 24 MW, the plant…
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The company GreenBillions (TGBL) will partner with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to set up a demonstration plant for the conversion of biomass and MSW into hydrogen. The plant will be operated by TGBL’s wholly-owned subsidiary…
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The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) is planning to transfer 44.2 acres of land for a WtE plant in Galand village in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, to Dutch plant developer GC International. The developer urged the GMC…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), reportedly plans to set up or revamp five Waste-to-Energy plants across Hyderabad. A 14.5 MW plant currently being constructed in Dundigal is to be commissioned by March 2023. The…
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A WtE plant is currently being set up at the Deonar landfill in Mumbai, Maharashtra. As further reported, the 360 tpd facility is being set up by Waste Management Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Re…
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Despite opposition from residents in the surrounding areas, the Centre’s expert appraisal committee (EAC) has recommended granting environmental clearance for the expansion of the Okhla waste-to-energy plant in south Delhi. The Jindal Group-owned Timarpur-Okhla Waste…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has formed a five-member team of officials and residents to monitor waste operations at defunct material recovery facilities (MRFs) at Ullawas village in Sector 61. MCG officials said they…
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Haryana’s Minister of Urban Local Bodies (ULB), Dr. Kamal Gupta has launched the construction of India’s largest waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Gurugram. Waste management concessionaire, Ecogreen Energy, will build a 25 MW waste-to-energy plant at Bandhwari…
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An upgraded solid waste processing plant has recently been commissioned at Dadumajra in Chandigarh City, Punjab. The plant should process dry waste for conversion into RDF. At the facility built in 2008, as further stated,…
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A new WtE plant is being proposed in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. This was stated by the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh during a recent review meeting on the Municipal Administration and Urban Development in Amaravati,…
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The Shimla WtE facility, Himachal Pradesh, has finally started energy production from waste. It has been operational for almost four years now. The plant has been developed by Australian company Elephant Energy in PPP mode…
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Bioremediation has begun at the Tajpur Road dump site in Ludhiana, which will help clear five lakh tonnes of legacy waste. The project will cost Rs 27.17 crore and is being executed under the Ludhiana…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is planning two additional Waste-to-Energy (WtE) facilities at Pyaranagar in Jinnaram and Dundigal, both in Medak. The 14.5-megawatt Dundigal WTE plant will handle about 1,000 TPD of garbage. Waste Management…
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The proposed RDF project in Sheeshambada in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, is reportedly inconsistent with the guidelines of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). As further stated in the source, plant developer RE Sustainability (RE), former Ramky Enviro,…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has approved the expansion of the Okhla Waste to Energy plant, Delhi, after the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) has refused the proposal in September 2022. Operator Okhla Waste Management Company…
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The implementation of a Waste to Energy plant in Vadodara Municipality, Gujarat is delayed. As the source indicates, the plant by Abelan Clean Energy Ltd. should have been operational by December 2021. Furthermore, Abelan Clean…
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The proposed new WtE facility to be built at Narela-Bawana, Delhi, is currently expected to be completed by August 2025. According to the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), the Municipal Corporation Of Delhi (MCD) has…
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The Goa state government is seeking funding from the Government of India for the WtE project by Goa Waste Management Corporation (GMWC). Reportedly, Goa is seeking INR 1.5 billion (EUR 18.82 million) from the Centre…
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A new WtE plant could be built in Nashik, Maharashtra, as The Times of India reports. On 23 September 2022, Nashik Municipal Corporation held talks with Mahatma Phule Energy and Infrastructure Technology Ltd (MahaPreit), a…
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The second WtE facility in Jawaharnagar, Telangana, is “almost ready for commissioning”. The project is planned to have a power supply capacity of 28 MWe, as Telangana Today reports. The first WtE plant in Jawaharnagar…
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According to the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GMWC), plans provide to develop a new WtE plant in Verna, which is a village in Salcete, Goa. The plant should be set up in Verna at an…
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According to a recent report on the WtE project in Bandhwari, Haryana, the facility has not yet been completed. An update from March 2022 stated that the 15 MW plant is scheduled to become operational…
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CNIM MARTIN Private Ltd. has signed a contract with turnkey solution provider Uttam Energy for the supply of the main components of the WTE plant to be built in Deonar, Mumbai, India for Municipal Corporation…
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There are plans for the development of a WtE plant in Srinagar City, Jammu and Kashmir. Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) already completed “some documentation” for this project. Moreover, a PPA is expected to be completed…
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Following a public hearing on August 16, a proposal to increase the Okhla Waste to Energy (WtE) plant’s capacity from 23 MW to 40 MW was rejected. The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) said the plan…
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The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC), Tamil Nadu, will receive funds amounting to INR 700 million (EUR 8.7 million) under the Federal Government’s Swachh Bharat mission’s Solid Waste Management fund. With these funds, a C&D…
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With the city corporation recently awarding the contract for the second phase of biomining at Ariyamangalam dumpyard, preliminary work is underway to determine the exact amount of waste to be cleared. According to city officials,…
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Bihar’s state urban development and housing department intends to build a WtE plant in Patna, Bihar. The facility to be erected at Ramachak Bairiya on Patna-Gaya road should host several separate units for compost, biomethanation,…
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A little over three years after the previous attempt to expand operations at the Okhla waste-to-energy (WTE) plant failed due to opposition from locals, the Jindal group’s Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company has started the…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered an inquiry against concessionaire IEISL, which operates the Ghazipur Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant in Delhi. In an interim report to the tribunal, the panel ordered an investigation into…
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A new report provides details on a WtE plant by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in Bawana. A tender is currently running for this plant, which is supposed to be the MCD’s fifth project.…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has announced that a public hearing for environmental clearance on the Okhla waste-to-energy (WtE) plant expansion will be held next month. Residents of Sukhdev Vihar in southeast Delhi had…
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Gujarat chief minister Mr Bhupendra Patel virtually inaugurated the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation’s (JMC) waste-to-energy park in Jamnagar’s Gandhinagar district on Wednesday. The plant will produce 7.5 MW of electricity daily. The facility was built under…
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The waste-to-energy (WTE) plant next to Ghazipur landfill site in Delhi has resumed operations after a gap of 6 months, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Mr Vinai Saxena announced. “Of the 2600 MT waste generated every day…
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A new source is commenting on the WtE project in Brahmapuram, Ernakulam District, Kerala. Even after seven years, as per the source, the project has not yet been implemented. Reportedly, a Detailed Project Report (DPR)…
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Andra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, has inaugurated the long-delayed Waste to Energy project in Guntur. The plant operated by Jindal Group was built at a cost of Rs 345 crore and…
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Plans have emerged for an MSW management also producing energy in Kurbathang, in Kargil District, Union Territory of Ladakh. The facility should produce energy, as well as provide recycling and composting. As further stated in…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has announced an October deadline for the commissioning of a new waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at Tehkhand. It will use 2,000 tonnes of waste per day to generate 25 megawatts of…
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Delhi MSW Solutions intends to expand its RDF combustion plant at Bawana Industrial Area in Delhi. According to the report, the plant’s capacity should increase from 24 MW to 60 MW at an investment of…
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The Bidadi WtE project, which is currently under construction, could by delayed as the financing of the construction is hindered. The project is being jointly developed by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Karnataka Power…
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A 35 MT Waste to Energy (WtE) project in Meghalaya will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Mr Conrad Sangma. The plant is located in Tura, West Garo Hills district, and will be operated by a…
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is expected to inaugurate the much-delayed Guntur Waste to Energy (WtE) plant operated by the Jindal group on June 5. The plant will generate about 15…
