Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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.…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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.…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Vizag’s Waste to Energy plant is likely to be functional by next month. Greater Vishakapatnam Municipal Corporation wants to leave a good impression on the Swacch Sarvekshan 2021 crew due in January and has thus…
Aafrin Kidwai
After Deonar, the BMC is now planning to set up a waste to energy plant at the Gorai dumping ground. The civic body has appointed the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, to study the…
Aafrin Kidwai
A 19.8 MW waste to energy (WtE) plant at Jawahar Nagar was inaugurated today. It is the first Waste to Energy Plant in South India with a capacity to process about 1200 tonnes per day…
Aafrin Kidwai
Anticipating that no bidders are likely to qualify for setting up of the solid waste management facility at Bainguinim, the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) may relax the criteria for bidders and float a fresh…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Great Hyderabad Municipal Commission (GHMC) might soon finalise the formal commissioning of a new 19MW waste-to-energy plant in the Jawaharnagar dump yard. The GHMC has been already working on the project along with Ramky…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Rs 1,100 crore Deonar waste-to-energy plant proposal has been cleared by the BMC standing committee. The contract was allotted to the lowest bidder-Chennai M S W Pvt Ltd, without any discussion in the standing…
Aafrin Kidwai
Work on Kerala’s first waste-to-energy (WtE) plant at Njeliyanparamba, Kozhikode has begun. The WtE plant is being set up on 12.67 acres of Corporation land by Zonta Infratech Private Limited. The ₹250-crore project is expected…
Aafrin Kidwai
Isgec has won an order for setting up a 11.5 MW waste to energy plant for the Karnataka Power Corporation to be set up in Bidadi, an industrial hub located 32 km from Bengaluru. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
Four companies participated in the pre-bid meeting for the solid waste management plant at Bainguinim. A senior official said that bidders appreciated the tender document and sought relaxation in criteria for the bidding process and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Power Corporations Limited (KPCL) will set up an 11.5 MW waste to energy (WTE) plant at the cost of Rs 260 crore in Bidadi in the next two years. The KPCL clarified that the plant…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) will soon put into action its plan to transform waste generated in the twin cities into torrefied charcoal that will be used at thermal power plants in lieu of fossil…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) inspection of three waste to energy plants in Delhi has resulted in the discovery of high cadmium levels in fly ash at Bawana and Ghazipur plants. A report was…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has invited bids for setting up a solid waste processing facility at Bainguinim with a processing capacity of 250 tonnes per day. The plant, estimated to cost Rs 200…
Aafrin Kidwai
Trials to produce electricity from waste has begun at the solid waste management plant at Bhariyal, located on the outskirts of Shimla. Around two-kilowatt power is being produced during the trials every day. The waste-to-energy…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi, has told the Kerala government that it may consider imprisonment of bureaucrats who fail to comply with its orders seeking action against those responsible…
Aafrin Kidwai
Two consortiums have submitted their technical and financial bids for the Waste to Energy project in Brahmapuram. These include: Zonta Infratech Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru; Zonta Bauer Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Bauer GmbH, Germany; CNIM Martin Pvt.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The tender document for construction of a 250 tonne per day (TPD) solid waste treatment plant (SWTP) at Bainguinim is expected soon, suggest media reports. In June, the government had decided to keep the tender…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has extended the validity of the generic tariff Rs 7.08 / kWh for waste to energy (WTE) projects in the state. (Read the Order document here). The validity of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) has identified a 21-acre government plot at Govindpur for establishing a waste-to-energy plant. The proposed waste-to-energy (WtE) plant and dumping yard is expected to produce 6MW of electricity per day. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttarakhand government has announced plans to set up six new plants to generate electricity from solid waste. Madan Kaushik, minister for urban development in the state has asked officials to make a detailed plan…
Aafrin Kidwai
At least ten companies have evinced interest in the Brahmapuram waste-to-energy plant. A meeting was organised by the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) through video conferencing late last week in view of the COVID-19…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) has identified 17.81 acres of land for establishing a garbage processing or waste to energy plant, under phase II of a Rs 274 crore project. The Telegraph Online reports that…
Aafrin Kidwai
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), NTPC and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of waste-to-energy facilities at SDMC’s landfill site in Okhla. As per the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has announced it will extend it’s Waste to Energy program beyond March 31, 2020. The program will continue without any changes in its scope, nature or coverage. In…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has sent a letter to Kochi corporation authorities asking them to lease out around 22 acres of land at Brahmapuram for setting up a Waste to Energy (WtE)…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following the Centre’s policy announcement to boost the use of bio-fuels earlier this year, funding difficulties for waste-to-energy projects reportedly continue. Banks have maintained a cautious and guarded approach over funding these power projects, especially…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has canceled its proposed waste to energy and waste to bio-CNG projects. It will, however, continue with compost, material recovery facility (MRF), and reuse of construction and demolition waste projects.…
Aafrin Kidwai
A deadline of December 2020 has been fixed for the commercial operation of the waste-to-energy (WtE) power project by the JIFT Urban Infrastructure Limited at Kapuluppada under the limits of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has directed UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) and Ecogreen Energy Lucknow Pvt Ltd to come up with a firm agreement for the amended power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 13.5 MW municipal…
Aafrin Kidwai
Belgian Waste-to-Energy (WtE) technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat in India for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The first…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brahmapuram waste-to-energy plant has suffered yet another setback. The Local Self Government Department has asked the Kochi Corporation to terminate the Concession Agreement executed with GJ Eco Power Pvt Ltd, the company entrusted with…
Aafrin Kidwai
It is applicable to units that will become commercially operational between 2020-21 and 2023-24 With a view to encouraging generation of power from solid waste in cities in the State, particularly in Hyderabad, Telangana State…
Aafrin Kidwai
The government has given its nod for a grant of Rs 478 crore to the waste-to-energy (WTE) programme for the remaining period of the financial year 2019-20. This includes a Central Financial Assistance (CFA) of Rs 400 crore…
