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According to The Times of India, due to an almost two-year-long delay in the implementation of the Secunderabad RDF project, the constructor of the project, PEC Limited, is now considering to pull out of the…
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According to The Times of India, the Kochi WtE project seems to be facing another delay, as the land on which the new WtE facility is to be built, seems to consist of paddy land…
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According to Bloomberg, plans for a new WtE plant in Hyderabad, state of Telangana, seem to move forward. Indian company Sri Venkateswara Green Power Projects Ltd. has recently acquired a majority share of 51% of…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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The authorities of North Western Railways are considering setting up a plant in the city of Jaipur that shall produce energy from plastic bottles and cups that are left at the railway station. The proposed…
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After a business trip to China, representatives of the Municipal Corporation Gurgaon (MCG) confirmed that they consider a WtE plant at the current site of Bandhwari waste treatment plant. The current plant was supposed to…
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The Srinagar Municipal Corporation is still looking for contractors to set up a waste-to-energy plant which shall generate 5MWel from waste at the Achin dumping site. According to the Solid Waste Management Officer, a company…
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The implementation of the discussed WtE plant in Deonar, Mumbai, remains unclear. Although Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCEL) was hired for a feasibility study in 2016, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now appointed further…
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To expedite the construction of a WtE plant in Ghaziabad, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has decided to purchase land on its own and hand it over to the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation. The decision comes…
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According to local government officials, a contractor has finally been found for the implementation of a WtE project in Mavallipura, located close to the city Bengaluru. Indian company Essel Group will operate the planned facility,…
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A decision on the controversial WtE project in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, seems to be reached very soon as the government has announced a public hearing on 6 June. Former protests against the project were declined by…
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As a reaction to Jaipur’s bad result in a cleanliness ranking, union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu has announced to start working on the implementation of two WtE plants in August. As stated by the…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation has proposed the construction of a 750 tpd WtE and RDF facility in the city of Pune, Maharashtra. The facility should produce electricity (13 MW), compost and RDF. The plan should…
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The Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) has determined 1 June 2017 as the deadline for the start of operations of the WtE project at the Bhariyal landfill site. The plant is being set up by Elephant…
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According to the source, a WtE plant is currently being constructed in Ghaziabad. It should have a capacity of 1,000 to 1,500 daily metric tons of processed solid waste and produce 15 MW of electricity.…
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The Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in Ahmedabad plans to upgrade its WtE facilities to generate 45 MW of power from 3,000 daily tons of garbage. According to the AMC, the civic body of Ahmedabad has…
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According to the local civic body Kochi Municipal Corporation (KMC), construction works for the planned WtE plant in Brahmapuram are to start until 30 May. Even though some contractual details, such as the environmental clearance…
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The start of construction of the discussed WtE plant in Brahmapuram, Kerala, is scheduled for the end of May 2017. As reported, Kochi Corporation has signed an agreement with GJ Eco Power Pvt Ltd for…
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A few months after a contract was signed between the Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Prague-based firm Spark Bresson Private Ltd. to set up a new WtE plant, new information has been disclosed and reported…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to submit an affidavit on the status of the proposed Waste-to-Energy plant in Daruthenga, Odisha region. The new facility should prevent continuous dumping…
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Eco Green Energy Private Limited, subsidiary of Chinese operator China Jinjiang Environment Holding Co., will build and operate the WtE plant in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. The contract has a duration of 22 years beginning in…
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In order to meet state unit chief Manoj Tiwari’s plan to free South Delhi from garbage, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has decided to set up a second Waste-to-Energy plant soon. The corporation targets…
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According to local officials, the 2 planned WtE facilities in Perungudi and Kodungaiyur are feasible. The IDR 24 billion (EUR 342 million) projects should generate 58 MW of power by processing 5,000 tons of MSW…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation has released a plan to build a new WtE plant within the district of Visakhapatnam, the New Indian Express reports. Before starting to construct the new compound, the local government…
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According to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the city of Bengaluru may be home to new WtE plants soon. Sources differ on whether two or four new facilities are to be set up. The…
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Despite the fact that the Brahmapuram WtE plant has been officially approved by the local government of Kochi, there seems no end in sight for the ongoing struggle between the two parties involved in the…
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According to Sheffield Hallam University, its research and consultancy group Hallam Energy considers to cooperate with the Indian government to set up a WtE plant in New Delhi. Hallam Energy undertook a feasibility study for…
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A few weeks after taking over as waste management body of the city of Lucknow, Chinese firm Ecogreen Energy has officially confirmed that they will invest around RMB 300 million (EUR 40.8 million) in the…
