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Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) is planning to develop a bio-CNG plant in the city by 2023. The plant should process segregated waste as well as horticulture waste, and produce biogas. According to the report, an…
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The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India has announced plans to subsidise the production of wood pellets. According to the news report, a fund of INR 500 million (EUR 6.23 million) has been set…
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Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) intends to set up a CBG plant at the Haibowal Dairy Complex in Ludhiana, Punjab. As part of the so-called Buddha Nullah Rejuvenation Project, the future plant should be used…
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According to the Times of India, two additional CGB plants running on paddy straw are expected to start operations by year-end. One facility using 5,000 tonnes of paddy straw is planned to be erected in…
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Reportedly, there are currently two biomass power projects based on paddy straw in Kurukshetra and Kaithal, Haryana. The projects are owned by Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA). According to Hindustan Times, the plants both…
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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation, Uttar Pradesh, is looking for a new partner to develop the planned biogas plant in the municipality. It is requesting bids from domestic and international companies for a waste disposal contract…
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A CBG plant is being set up in Thaluapur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. This will reportedly be the first plant in the state in which CBG will be made from the mixture of cow dung, grass,…
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Automobile company Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) and the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) have signed an MoU to jointly develop a biogas demonstration project in India. The partners plan to form a JV to undertake…
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A planned biogas plant in Darbhanga, Bihar State, will receive INR 5 million (EUR 62,712) of funding from the Gobar Dhan biogas support scheme. The plant should process locally collected cow dung. A plot of…
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A new biogas plant, currently under construction in Dhuriapur, Uttar Pradesh, is expected to be ready in December 2022 and will start operations in March 2023. The plant, being built by IOCL, is expected to…
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A 600 tpd biogas plant will be established in the Barsana town of Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh. Adani Total Gas has entered into a public welfare partnership with Shri Mataji Gaushala, a cow shelter in…
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Two years after they were built, the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation issued tenders to run 22 micro composting centers (MCC) with the assistance of commercial partners. A competent agency will be picked to administer and maintain…
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HPCL has started its first cow dung-based biogas project in Rajasthan, which converts 100 tonnes of dung per day into biogas that may be utilized as a transportation fuel. The HPCL Compressed Biogas Project project…
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EverEnviro Resource Management Pvt Ltd (EverEnviro), a wholly owned subsidiary of Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF), plans to invest $1 billion in the construction of 14 compressed biogas plants across the country. There are currently…
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A biogas plant in the municipality of Kalpetta, Kerala, was inaugurated on 14 August 2022. The plant is reportedly located at a 15,000-square feet area on 9 acres of land in Vellaramkunnu. The investment has…
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Building works for the biogas facility at Parag Dairy in Ramnagar, Uttar Pradesh, are expected to be completed by December 2022. As of June 2022, commissioning was scheduled for October 2022. The plant is expected…
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The Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant in the village of Bhutal Kalan in Sangrur district, Punjab, has now started commercial CGB production. The plant producing 33.23 tpd was commissioned in April 2022. As per earlier information,…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is constructing nine mini waste-to-energy or biomethanisation plants with a daily capacity of two metric tonnes (MT) of organic waste. These will be located throughout Mumbai with the goal of…
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A biogas plant with a capacity of 200 cubic metres has been inaugurated in the Akauni village in Chandauli district, Varanasi. According to the news report, the plant was implemented in cooperation with the National…
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Construction of a biogas plant is currently underway in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The project is being jointly developed by gas company GAIL India Limited and the Ranchi Municipal Corporation. In two digesters, the plant should process…
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Utility Adani New Industries (ANIL) and conglomerate Reliance Industries (RIL) are planning to each develop two biogas plants. Both companies plan to invest up to INR 6 billion (EUR 74.26 million) in the new projects.…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has launched a special project to source segregate organic waste and produce compost from wet waste using an eco-friendly aerobic composting technology. The West Zone authorities launched Project S.O.R.T.…
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has announced plans to set up two large-scale biogas plants running on municipal organic waste. The 500 tpd BioCNG facilities are planned at the Chikkanagamangala and Karnataka Compost Development Corporation…
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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will continue to operate small-scale biogas plants, despite earlier plans for a shut down. In June 2022, PMC had announced to close 25 biogas plants. As per the new announcement, however…
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The state government of Uttar Pradesh has announced plans to set up compressed biogas plants in PPP mode in all cow protection facilities in the state. The plans provide to build block-level cow centres, each…
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Two AD projects converting cow dung into compressed biogas (green automotive fuel) are being proposed in the state of Chhattisgarh. The plans were presented by an official of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to close 25 biogas plants built at a cost of Rs. 100 crore. These factories treat 2-7 MT waste per day. While several facilities have stopped operating over…
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The company Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (Balco) has started co-firing of biomass briquettes at its thermal power plant in Korba, Chhattisgarh. Balco, a subsidiary of Indian Oil & Gas and Metals company Vedanta Resources, will…
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The Chennai civic body has earned over Rs 64 lakh in less than month – that is, since May 27 – by selling over 85 lakh kg of manure produced in its composting centres. The…
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The company Dhatri Biosilicates intends to invest INR 1.6 billion (EUR 19.5 million) to set up a silica and biogas plant in the federal state of Telangana. According to the source, this was announced on…
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A 100 tpd AD plant is currently being erected at the Parag Dairy in Ramnagar, Uttar Pradesh. The plant is expected to produce 4,000 m³ of gas and about 2,000 units of electricity per day.…
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Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Limited is partnering with Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD on a compressed biogas (CBG) plant in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh. The plant should be running on biodegradable solid (wet) waste. An MoU is…
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The Haibowal in Ludhiana, Punjab, is not working at full capacity. The plant at Hambran road is running at 100 to 125 tpd of cow dung, whereas its regular capacity is at least 225 tpd.…
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Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has granted permission to a proposal to build a biogas plant in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. The facility is to be erected at the Adarsh Gaushala of the Municipal Corporation, Lal…
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A new biomass boiler has been installed in 2022 in Kurukshetra, Haryana. The 75 tph, 15 MWe boiler by Sukhbir Agro Energy Limited (SAEL) is using vibrating grate technology developed in Denmark. However, the source…
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A biomethane plant has been erected and opened at the NTPC Pakri Barwadih coal mining project (PBCMP), Jharkhand. The facility is located at Sikri site premises. The energy to be produced is supposed to be…
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The Nagaland District Energy and Finance Ministry has signed several power purchase agreements with companies in the solar, thermal, hydro and biomass power sectors. Indian power company Fitzroy Energy & Minerals Ltd. signed a power…
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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) is building a waste-to-energy plant on the Design, Build, Finance, Operate, and Transfer (DBFOT) model at its Vashi Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). The city’s wet organic waste will be…
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A 20 tpd biowaste AD plant is to be built at the Kaithalapur Transfer Station in Hyderabad, Telangana. Led by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), it entails an estimated…
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Ahmedabad-based Enertech Fuel Solutions intends to make investments in the compressed biogas (CBG) business. The total investment should amount to INR 6 billion (EUR 74.6 million). Reportedly, in a first phase, the company plans to…
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Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) is further developing its plans for a biogas plant at the Mandur landfill in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Back in July 2021, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sought details of…
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Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and Adani Total Gas are proposing to set up compressed biogas (CBG) plants in Uttar Pradesh. The source does not comment on any specific location. As further stated in the source,…
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The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) plans to earn revenue by recycling dry and wet waste at its Chetpet Bio CNG facility and selling manure. The civic body reportedly receives a royalty of Rs 1.5…
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A new CNG facility based on cow dung is to be built in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The facility also known as Bhopal Gobar-dhan plant, is supposed to produce enough CNG to operate 250 city buses…
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The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has agreed to build two new biomethanation units with a capacity of treating 5 tonnes of waste per day in order to alleviate the city’s solid waste management crisis. Work…
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The Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) has again ordered 11 coal-based thermal power plants operators to comply with its biomass co-firing instructions. In September 2021,…
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A new biogas plant is under construction in Kota, Rajasthan. The plant is being developed under the Devnarayan scheme of the City Development Trust Kota, according to a news report. The work is being carried…
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An automatic compressed biogas (CBG) facility, the first in Noida, will be built in Sector 123 to dispose of 200 metric tonnes of wet waste daily. The factory, which will be developed in a public-private…
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Indore’s new bio-CNG plant, touted as one of Asia’s largest such facilities, is ready. It is expected to start operations within the next 15-20 days. The plant will produce 18,000 kg of bio-CNG from 550 tonnes of liquid…
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The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) to set up compressed bio gas (CBG) plants and integrated CBG-CNG fuel stations. Each CBG plant will…
