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The State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) on solid waste management has said that the use of biodegradable and recyclable non-biodegradable waste at the proposed waste-to-energy plant at Brahmapuram may not be viable. The Hindu reports…
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The Mohali government has handed over 40 acres out of the total 50 acres allotted for a waste-to-energy plant in Samgoli village of Dera Bassi to the Mohali Municipal Corporation (MC). The Hindustan Times reports…
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NTPC, India’s largest power producer, has successfully implemented a technology to convert Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into high Gross Caloric Value (GCV) fuel that can be co-fired in conventional boilers at its Dadri plant in…
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The West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the purchase of surplus power from a waste gas-based generating project, located at Chhatna in the Bankura district of West Bengal.…
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The Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has allowed the Okhla waste-to-energy plant to increase its power generation from 16 MW to 23 MW by amending the environmental clearance the plant had received in…
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An 11 MW Waste-to-Energy plant being built by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) at Pirana will be operational by the end of the year. The AMC has entered power purchase agreements with two companies that…
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The Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGCL) has announced that it will set up a waste-to-energy plant in Assam. The facility will be established near the proposed integrated solid waste management facility (ISWMF) of the…
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The Government has issued an order converting the concessional agreement signed between the Kochi Corporation and GJ Eco Power Private Ltd., the company entrusted with the construction of the waste-to-energy plant at Brahmapuram, into a…
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The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has commissioned the country’s first government-run Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant at Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop in Bhubaneswar, Orissa. This WtE plant, a patented technology called Polycrack, is the first…
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Belgian waste to energy technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The project will…
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the government plans to construct centralized Waste to Energy (WtE) plants in six districts of the state. The projects will be undertaken in Kollam, Thrissur, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram,…
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The Punjab government has decided to build a 7MW waste to energy plant at Simgauli in Mohali district. The plant, spread over an area of 50 acres, will be designed to generate electricity of 600…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) might have finally found bidders for the Rs 600 crore Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant to be constructed at the Deonar dumping ground. The BMC first started the bidding process for the…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has turned down an appeal challenging the environmental clearance given to the Bandhwari Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant in Gurugram. The NGT has refused to interfere with the Environment Ministry’s clearance for…
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Andhra Pradesh’s first Waste-to-Energy plant in Guntur is nearing completion. Explains Mr M V Chary, President – Projects, Jindal Urban Waste Management (Guntur) Limited, which is implementing the project, “Around 90 per cent work on the…
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The Kerala government has approved two new Waste-to-Energy plants (WtE) plants in the state. One plant will be set-up at Kanjikode (Palakkad) and another in Kannur. Each project is expected to cost between Rs 120…
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The Chairperson of Andhra Pradesh’s State-level Expert Committee for Protection of Environment Mr T Chatterjee has said there is a need to set up more waste-to-energy plants. Mr Chatterjee expressed his views during a visit…
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The Jammu and Kashmir government is installing solid waste treatment plants in eight major towns to convert the garbage into compost. The Kashmir Monitor reports that Baramulla, Sumbal, Hajan, Budgam, Bejbehara, Anantnag, Kulgam and Tral…
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The Ongole Municipal Corporation (OMC) has joined hands with Mahindra & Mahindra to set up a facility to generate power from wet waste. Around 85 to 100 tons of wet and dry waste is produced…
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There are ninety-six successful Waste-to-Energy (WtE) projects in India, as per a statement issued by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in the Lok Sabha. As of October 31, all 96 WtE projects were generating electricity…
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Thiruvananthapuram’s proposed Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant remains in limbo with the city corporation still not convinced about the feasibility of building a new centralized WtE plant. The Times of India reports that the state government’s continuous…
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Thiruvananthapuram authorities have decided to set up a centralized waste treatment plant within corporation limits, following a show-cause notice from the Pollution Control Board (PCB). Since the closure of the Vilappilsala plant last year following…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has initiated a trial run of its first bio-methanation plant at Geeta Colony. Spread over 600 sq metres, the plant will consume 5000 kg of wet waste daily to generate…
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As part of its efforts to promote waste-to-energy (WtE), the Indian government has set up a total capacity of 56.34 MW for power generation from waste in the last three years. So far, 199 WtE…
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Four years after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) passed an order for setting up a 5 MW waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Srinagar, its installation remains stalled by procedural delays. The plant was to be installed…
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GJ Eco Power Pvt Ltd has started work on the much-delayed waste-to-energy plant in Kochi after receiving the last in a series of building approvals a few days ago. The first phase of the project…
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The Union Cabinet has given its approval for a Memorandum of Understanding between India and Guinea (West Africa) in the field of Renewable Energy. The objective of the MoU is threefold: To establish the basis…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Karnataka Power Corporation (KPCL) are planning to set up a waste-to-energy plant in Mandur. According to the Bangalore Mirror, the Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has ordered KPCL to…
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According to The Hindu, following the complete bio-mining of municipal solid waste generated in the past 60 years at the Vairapalayam and Vendipalayam landfills, the civic body is now planning to establish an incinerator machine…
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Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) wants to implement a waste-to-energy facility at the Rampur dumping yard in Warangal, Telangana. The throughput capacity of the planned facility is estimated at 300 t/d. The GWMC plans to…
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As reported by The Times of India, the Government of Uttar Pradesh and Dutch company GC International have recently signed an agreement towards establishing two Waste-to-Energy plants in Muzaffarnagar and Ghaziabad. GC International will invest INR 20 billion for…
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Following the complete acquisition of land for the Galand WtE plant, an agreement will be signed between the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) and Dutch GC International towards the preparation of a Detailed Project Report (DPR).…
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The municipal corporations of Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla in Delhi have begun the processing of waste at the three local landfills. All of them are severely overfilled. Through bio-mining processes, the waste will be sorted…
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India’s Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry advocates for a higher proportion of co-incinerated waste as refuse-derived fuel in cement kilns, The Hindu reports. In a cooperation with the Cement Manufacturers Association (CMA), the ministry…
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As reported by the Times of India, The Brahmapuram WtE facility in Kochi has passed the Environmental Impact Assessment. As previously reported, the development of the project already faced several hurdles so far. The responsible…
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According to the source (the Times of India), the construction works for the Njeliyanparambu WtE facility should start in December 2019. The INR 2.5 billion project is to be installed by Zonta Infratech Private Ltd.…
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According to The Times of India, the construction works for the Njeliyanparambu WtE facility should start in December 2019. The INR 2.5 billion project is to be installed by Zonta Infratech Private Ltd. in a…
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The construction works on the WtE facility planned in Surat should commence in December, the Times of India reports. Once operational, the INR 2.5 billion facility should have a capacity of 14 MW, while treating…
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The Dalmia Cement company in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, plans to switch completely to the incineration of refuse-derived fuel by 2040. The abandonment of the incineration of fossil fuels is part of an strategy to lower…
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According to The Deccan Chronicle, the environmental clearance for the Brahmapuram Waste-to-Energy project is expected to be issued by the end of September. At first, the State Level Environment Impact Assessment Committee (SLEIAC) is planning…
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The housing and urban development department of Bhubaneswar has directed the civic body to sort all issues related to the Bhuasuni dumping yard and commence work on setting up the planned Waste-to-Energy plant and another…
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After several hurdles, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced that it finally managed to get 3 companies to bid for the WtE project in Deonar. One of them is from Europe and two are…
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The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has stated to be initiating the process to cancel the WtE agreement with AG Dauters Waste Processing Private Ltd. As reported by The Times of India, the company was awarded the…
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The completion of the ongoing construction of a 15 MW Waste-to-Energy facility in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, has been reported to be delayed. The plant is being developed to process solid waste collected from nine Urban…
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The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has approved a funding of INR 10 crores for the development of waste management projects in the Mysuru City Corporation. According to The Hindu, the project includes the…
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As reported by The Hindustan Times, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has paid INR 16.5 crores to the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation for the purchase of land for the construction of the Galand WtE plant. The…
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The Karnataka State Government has approved establishing a WtE plant in Kannahalli. A yet-to-be-appointed company is expected to finance and operate the plant while Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will supply the municipal waste input.…
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According to The Times of India, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) have now been able to secure 14 acres of land needed for the planned Galand WtE project. The plant is planned to be constructed…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has proposed to replace the Nagpur WtE project with a bio-CGN and composting plant. According to The Times of India, NMC has submitted the proposal to the State Government. In…
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The urban bodies in the federal state of Madhya Pradesh have been divided into 26 clusters for solid waste management. Plans have been provided for setting up 6 WtE plants as well as 20 composting…
