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Seven technology start-ups in Tiruchirappalli (Trichy), Tamil Nadu, have received funding amounting to a total of INR 75 million (EUR 935,702) through a governmental Seed Support Scheme, according to The Times of India. The start-ups…
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A new AD plant at the Ranganathaswamy temple campus in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu, has been put into operations, as The Times of India reported. The plant processes 70 kg of food waste and 300 kg of cow…
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An old AD plant in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, has been put back into operation, as Citizen Matters reported. The plant, originally inaugurated in 2014, was shut down due to technical issues in 2014/2015. Currently, the…
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According to The Print, statutory advisory body Animal Welfare Board of India is developing a scheme, which includes, apart from new animal protection guideline, especially for cows, also a guideline for cow shelters to also…
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A new biogas plant has been commissioned in Yediyur ward, located in south Bengaluru, Karnataka. As stated by The Times of India, the plant will be processing 4.5 tpd of wet waste, producing 250 kW…
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The government of the federal state of Himachal Pradesh is investigating plans for rehabilitating its around 32,000 stray cows for biogas production, as The Times of India reported. For doing so, the Panchayati Raj and…
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In the course of Punjab’s government’s goal to cope with paddy straw management the government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Oil Corporation to plan several AD plants. To start the project the government…
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The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) has inaugurated a new AD plant, according to The Times of India. The municipal government of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, is planning to supply local streetlights with the food waste processing…
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Plans provide for a new biomethane facility to be built at a garbage transfer station in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. According to the source, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) has decided to build the plant. The investment…
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According to The United News of India, the local government of Punjab aims to support biogas projects in Moga by subsidising costs. Therefore, a new AD plant owner in the rural areas should get a…
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As reported by The Times of India, the municipal government of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, has announced a new AD plant at the local Nandi Park, a cattle shed for about 450 to 500 bulls and…
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Update on an ongoing biogas project on Tajpur Road in Buddha Nallah, Punjab. The plant has not yet been constructed, despite the fact that the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) has already completed the…
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The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has announced plans for a new AD plant for producing biogas and organic fertilisers. The site should be built at Dhapa, which is Kolkata’s dumping ground. As further reported by…
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Pune-based company Sampurn Agri Ventures has finished the construction of a new paddy straw processing AD plant in Fazilka, Punjab. According to The Times of India, the facility is expected to produce around 3,000 MWh…
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The Jaipur Municipal Corporation has defined new requirements forcing public building and partly private institutions to process their wet waste through composting or anaerobic digestion. According to The Times of India, the change which will…
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The municipal council of Matheran, a hill station in Maharashtra, is planning a new AD plant processing horse manure. The technology for the new plant will be delivered by the Trombay-based Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,…
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Gujarat University is to construct a biogas plant to be fed with kitchen waste from nearby residential colonies, hotels and restaurants on its campus in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, as Ahmedabad Mirror reported. The waste to be…
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The municipal council of Cuncolim, South Goa, has contracted Pune-based company Sampurn(e)arth Environment Solutions Pvt Ltd for the collection, segregation and treatment of the local waste which includes about 5 tonnes of mixed waste per…
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According to The Hindu, plans provide for building several biogas plants throughout the campus of the Government Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The units should be processing the entire food waste generated on the…
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According to ZEEBUSINESS, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, has announced plans for building a recycling plant for the conversion of organic waste into biogas. The source does not…
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The Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) plans a new AD plant in Pinjarapol in the district of Rajnandgaon. The AD plant should be constructed at a Gaushala with a capacity of 10,000 tons. As…
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A biogas plant is to be developed in Gaushala, Rajnandgaon district. According to The Daily Pioneer, the Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) plans to build a biogas plant with a capacity to produce 10…
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The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation will commission the new AD plant in Puikhadi, Maharashtra, next week. According to The Times of India, the plant should process agricultural waste with a capacity of 5 tons of waste…
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As reported by The National Herald, the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication is planning to move its campus to Bishankedi to construct a nearby gaushala, a shelter for cows. According to the…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation projects a new AD plant in cooperation with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Najafgarh, Southwest Delhi. According to The Hindustan Times, the facility should process cow dung from surrounding…
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The Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department of West Bengal projects a new facility near Dhapa to convert food waste and upgrade the produced biogas to BioCNG and Bio Carbon Dioxide. The project should also…
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A new waste plant with an AD unit will be constructed at the central railway station in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The proposal worth INR 4.4 million (EUR 58,289) raised by Western Railway has already been approved…
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The Bareilly Municipal Corporation (BMC), Uttar Pradesh, plans an AD plant using animal dung from stray and pet animals, according to The Times of India. While a pilot project is already being planned, the location…
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Several biogas plants are planned to be built in a proposed film city area to be built in the federal state of Bihar. As reported by The Times of India, Bihar Infrastructure Department Authority has…
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The government of Haryana announced plans for new biogas plants in all over 400 gaushalas (protective shelters for cows) in the state for utilizing cow dung. First they focus on the construction of biogas plants…
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The government of Haryana announced plans for new biogas plants in all over 400 gaushalas (protective shelters for cows) in the state for utilizing cow dung. First they focus on the construction of biogas plants…
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The Waste-to-Energy plant in the city of Panaji, Indian state of Goa, has increased its throughput remarkably over the first eleven months of operation, as reported by Nyoooz. The facility processes around 120 tpd of…
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Plans provide for setting up a new AD facility in the city of Sonipat, Haryana. As stated by The Statesman, the urban areas of Haryana are divided into 15 clusters. The plant should be erected…
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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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Currently, 8 out of 14 so-called community biogas plants (AD plants located at e.g. public markets or schools) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, are out of operation. As further stated by the Thiruvananthapuram health committee, the city’s…
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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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The Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has launched an online petition in order to eliminate taxes on biogas products in India, Bionenergy News reports. As stated by the Indian Government, biogas plants, piped biogas & bio-CNG…
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The Power-Gen India & Central Asia exhibition and conference will take place at the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre in New Delhi from 17 to 19 May. Power-Gen India & Central Asia strives to bring industry…
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A new AD unit has been commissioned at the Gau dairy farm located in the Thegra area of Kota, Rajasthan, the Hindustan Times reports. The plant was installed 4 months ago by the brothers Gagandeep…
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The AD plant in Nashik, Maharashtra, is expected to be commissioned and start operations within the next 2 weeks, with a delay of around 5 months. The project was executed by the Nashik Municipal Corporation…
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A new 5 t/d biogas plant is due to start operations in Rajkot, Gujarat, on 23rd March. Building works are completed and testing period has already been finalized. The facility had been developed by Rajkot…
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Additional information has been published on the proposal for a Waste-to-Energy project in the city of Kozhikode, Kerala, that was announced earlier this year. Kozhikode Corporation sent a proposal to Partner Kerala Mission, Kerala’s State…
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Plans for building a new slaughterhouse in Kunnukuzhy, Kerala, are proceeding. This was reported by The Hindu. The new site should include a meat processing unit, an effluent treatment plant as well as a biogas…
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As reported in issue 04-2017, the small-scale biogas plant in Domlur has been shut down because Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the administrative body for civic and infrastructural assets of the Greater Bangalore metropolitan area,…
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A small-scale biogas plant in Domlur, eastern Bangalore city, has been shut down. According to operator Ashoka Biogreen Pvt. Ltd., the plant was closed because Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the administrative body for civic…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has voted to construct a new biogas facility in the Najafgarh area in New Delhi. The plant should treat 150 tons of cattle waste and kitchen refuse per day, according…
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A biomethanation plant is to open soon in Madhya Pradesh. It will mainly convert biodegradable municipal solid waste into biogas, which will then be used to generate electricity for powering street lights at Bittan Market.…
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According to The Tribune, the government of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh (HP) has announced a scheme to encourage RDF production and biogas generation though implementing pilot projects in selected cities. As stated, HP’s…
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Indian Institute of Science (IISc) published a paper that shows Bengaluru’s considerable percentage of waste that could be recovered and used as a cheaper source of energy. This was reported by the Bangalore Mirror. According…
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German biogas specialist Archea Anlagenbau GmbH has commissioned a biogas facility in Goa. The company constructed the plant together with Dutch dB technologie b.v. within 18 months. According to the source, the facility is being…
