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A new Waste to Energy facility was inaugurated in Sonipat, Haryana by state Chief minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, as reported by The Times of India. The WtE project will cost INR 1.77 billion (EUR 20.3…
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The proposal for the Deonar WtE plant in Mumbai, Maharashtra, has been accepted by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), according to Hindustan Times. Currently, the plans are being reviewed by the state-level expert…
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Kerala’s Brahmapuram solid waste management plant never ceases to be in the news. This time, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Kochi corporation to file a status report on the solid waste treatment…
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has launched a loan interest subvention scheme in association with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) to provide financial assistance for innovative waste to energy bio-methanation projects. As…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has, once again, floated a tender for setting up of the solid waste management plant at Bainguinim. The project has been delayed repeatedly after no company qualified when the…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) is working towards the bio-remediation and reclamation of landfill area at Bandhwari. The site will be cleared at an estimated Rs 16 crore within a month. It will then…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has awarded the work of preparation of a detailed project report (DPR) and a Request for Proposal (RfP) for the upgradation of a solid waste processing plant in Dadumajra, Sector 25,…
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Chandigarh’s civic authorities have decided to upgrade the solid waste processing plant in Sector 25 (Dadumajra) to a Waste to Energy plant. The decision was taken after a year of research and visits to other…
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Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has announced the tariff for purchasing energy from the proposed 750 tpd WtE facility in Pune, Maharashtra. The revised tariff is INR 7.45 (EUR 0.085)/kWh, reports Mercom India. This, as…
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Agricultural cooperative NAFED has laid the foundation stone of a municipal solid waste (MSW) processing plant of 350 tpd capacity in Jammu. Expected to cost Rs 80 crore, the project is expected to be completed…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced plans to set up a 200MT waste processing plant for the 23 villages recently included in the PMC urban agglomeration. The PMC will receive Rs 200 crore from the…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to appoint a Project Management Consultant (PMC) to supervise the construction of Mumbai’s first waste to energy (WtE) plant at Deonar. The consultant will be responsible for approving the…
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Work on the 5 MW Srinagar City WtE project is likely to start once a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) has been sent to the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC), following a green signal from the…
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Construction work at the Njeliyanparamba WtE project in Kozhikode, Kerala is expected to commence in August 2021 and shall be completed by September 2023, reports The Hindu. The project is running behind schedule, mainly due…
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The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has directed BSES Rajdhani Power (BRPL) to meet its obligations to the Timarpur-Okhla Waste Management company (TOWMCL), a subsidiary of Jindal ITFL. TOWMCL had appealed to DERC that BRPL…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) is planning to develop material recovery facilities (MRFs) for segregating waste. Currently, all the waste is taken to a secondary collection centre before being transported to the Bhandwari landfill.…
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The much-delayed Waste to Energy plant in Guntur will be ready for operations next month, the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister, Mr Botcha Satyanarayana has announced. The plant is being built by…
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The 1,000 tpd Kannahalli WtE project in Bengaluru, Karnataka has started its waste composting stage. Waste to Energy activities will follow shortly, according to the Bangalore Mirror. Satarem Enterprises Private Limited (SEPL) has signed an…
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The plans for the development of a WtE facility in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, is still being pursued, reports The Times of India. As the source indicates, the only remaining obstacle seems to be finding a suitable…
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The Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Mr Mukesh Kumar has announced that the 15 MW Waste to Energy plant near Pirana at Gyaspur is likely to start operations by end of 2021. The WtE facility is being…
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The WtE project at Njeliyanparamba in Kozhikode, Kerala is behind schedule, mainly due to the lack of personnel and further pandemic-related obstacles. Works can start once biomining is completed, reports The Hindu. The 6 MW…
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Goa’s Waste Management minister Mr Michael Lobo has announced that the state government will float a new tender for the establishment of the solid waste management plant at Bainguinim within fifteen days. Mr Lobo informed…
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The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has inaugurated its fourth Swachhta Kendra, or Material Recovery Facilities, in Worli (G-South ward) in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL). The MRF…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is still awaiting an environmental permit for its Deonar Waste to Energy (WtE) project in Mumbai. MidDay reports that the clearance might take another four months and until then construction…
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Two consortia for developing the WtE plant at Brahmapuram in Kochi, Ernakulam district, have been shortlisted by Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC). The source does not identify the chosen consortiums. The proposal shall now…
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The Goa government has announced that it is setting up a waste-to-energy plant in Panaji in partnership with the IVL Swedish Environment Research Institute. The cabinet has granted approval to appoint IVL to execute the…
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The Andhra Pradesh Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) department has asked its all civic body chiefs to submit proposals for establishing garbage transfer stations in all the urban local bodies (ULBs). This is a…
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The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has announced its decision to deploy automated solid waste collection systems at four locations in Hussainsagar Lake. This is expected to reduce the flow of suspended solid waste from…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s proposal to set up a 4-megawatt (4MW) waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at the Deonar dumping ground has triggered objection from citizens and experts. The Hindustan Times reports that the project is being…
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The National Green Tribunal has ordered the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to take remedial action against the three waste-to-energy plants in Ghazipur, Okhla and Narela-Bawana. The CPCB had…
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Three new waste-to-energy (WtE) plants are in the pipeline in Hyderabad. New plants are to come up in Bibinagar, Yacharam and a 14.5 mw WtE plant at Dundigal. According to officials quoted in The Hans…
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Manipur’s new Waste to Energy (WtE) plant was inaugurated under MAHUD, Lamdeng. The project is expected to process 100 TPD waste. The plant was developed on a public-private partnership (PPP) mode under a tripartite agreement…
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After facing resistance from residents of Rani Khera for a long time against setting up of a waste-to-energy plant in their area, North Delhi Municipal Corporation has finalised a plan to build the plant next…
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The Supreme Court has cleared the contruction of a state-of-the-art waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Agra which was pending for four years. This is the first WtE plant to be built in Uttar Pradesh. According to…
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The police is investigating fire-related incidents at five Dry Waste Collection Centres in Bengaluru.According to Ms Nalini Sekhar of Hasiru Dala, miscreants destroyed DWCCs at Marathahalli, Gottigere, Ganesh Mandira, Kumaraswamy Layout and JP Nagar between…
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The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has released a global Expression of Interest (EoI) for setting up a 1800 TPD Waste to Energy (WtE) plant and disposal facility on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) is carrying out a drone survey of the Bandhwari landfill site to demarcate land for a proposed waste-to-energy (WTE) plant, to kick off construction later this year. The survey…
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The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) to set up an integrated Waste To Energy (WtE) plant in outer Delhi. As part of…
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Legacy waste at Bengaluru’s Mandur landfill site will be cleared after the biannual Aero-India show next month. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has got approval from the government and bidding has started to start…
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The Goa government has extended the time limit for accepting bids for the solid waste management facility at Bainguinim by 15 days. This has happened for the third time since only one bidder showed interest…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has refloated tenders for the centralised waste-to-energy plant of 300 tonnes per day capacity to be implemented on public-private partnership (PPP) mode at Brahmapuram. Tenders were refloated after…
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Waste segregated at source in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) limits has touched 33%, the highest-ever in the city. As per the latest figures, the civic body has collected 1,333 tonnes per day (TPD)…
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The Municipal Corporation of Amritsar (MCA) will bioremediate an estimated 10 lakh metric tonne of legacy waste at Bhagtanwala to reclaim the land, and set up a waste to energy plant to be built and…
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Andhra Pradesh’s newly appointed Municipal Administration and Urban Development principal secretary Y Srilakshmi has directed the Guntur administration to ensure the completion of the Jindal waste-to-energy plant at the earliest, reports The Times of India.…
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In an attempt to streamline the management of waste, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is chalking out plans to set up dry waste processing units in the city, reports Yo Vizag. The civic body…
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Goa’s Waste Management minister, Mr Michael Lobo, has said that the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) and IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute will soon sign an agreement for undertaking feasibility studies to set up a…
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The municipal corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has asked concessionaire Ecogreen to submit its plan for reclamation of land for the Bhandwari landfill site in order to build a waste to energy (WtE) plant at the…
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Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has laid the foundation stone for a 11.5 MW waste to energy project in Bidadi. With a capital investment of Rs 260 crore, the plant will consume 600 tonnes…
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North Delhi Municipal Corporation has approved a proposal for setting up a second waste-to-energy plant at Ranikhera after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC). The civic body is at…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has extended the time limit for accepting bids for the solid waste management facility at Bainguinim for the second time after three earlier bidders raised a lot of queries.…
