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The Government is encouraging Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to manage municipal solid waste in a scientific manner including processing waste –to-compost and other processes. The Government has introduced a policy on the promotion of City Compost…
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The Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) has dropped its plan to set up a municipal solid waste plant which was proposed more than a decade back but failed to take off. Instead, the civic body has…
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has laid the foundation stone for one of Asia’s largest biomethanation plants at the Devguradia disposal site. To be built at a cost of ₹150cr under PPP mode,…
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The monitoring committee of National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to impose bank guarantees on the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) for failing to implement proper solid waste management measures…
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A Covid Care Centre (CCC) in Mysuru has set up compost pits (pic) to recycle food waste at the centre. The CCC at Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) near the Mandakalli airport is run by…
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A new study on the solid waste composition and various solid waste treatment technologies in the rural areas of India and other countries has found that the solid waste generated in rural areas comprisemore than…
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It’s official. Uttar Pradesh leads states in setting up plants to produce compressed bio-gas (CBG), followed by Maharashtra and Haryana, according to the petroleum ministry. Of the 515 letters of intent (LoI) issued to entrepreneurs…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation has started providing home composting kits to apartment owners, despite opposition from gated community residents against the VMC’s decision to categorise them as Bulk Waste Generators (BWGs). According to the New…
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In order to control garbage dumping in open spaces, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is planning to put a check on bulk waste generators by making it compulsory for them to convert their waste into compost.…
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The Kuberpur landfill in Agra will start operations today. The plant, developed with an investment of Rs 11.27 crore, has the capacity to convert 300 metric tonnes per day (TPD) of waste into compost. According…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning to set up biomethanation and composting units in all wards to make them zero wet waste discharge areas. Segregated garbage from households and commercial establishments in each…
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The Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT) has built a bio-gas generation plant in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode with Mahindra & Mahindra in Thukivakam. At the plant, waste is being converted to methane-rich biogas and…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to convert its first biogas plant at Deeptisrinagar transfer station, Chandanagar circle, into an electric power generating plant. Tenders have been floated to enable the plant to…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation (GHMC) plans to set up 30 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) plants at garbage transfer stations in the city. The proposal, which will soon be presented to the government,…
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The West Bengal state government is coming up with bio-mining facilities at Dhapa to reduce the piling of waste at the landfill site. The Millennium Post reported that State Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has entered into an agreement with the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL) to install a 5-tonne biogas waste to energy plant at the municipality’s Waste…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has started work on a plan to develop a mega-unit with a capacity of 300 metric tonnes per day (TPD) for processing the biodegradable waste to compost. It will be…
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Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has proposed a project that will generate biogas and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) from cow dung. In a bid to make the city’s Gaushalas (cow shelters) self-dependant, the Municipal Corporation has sent the…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is formulating plans to renovate the biomethanation plant at Ajit Singh Nagar and use it for electricity production using wet waste. A new biomethanation plant will be set up at Jakkampudi. …
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Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to adopt bioremediation to dispose more than two lakh tonnes of waste which has piled up at its solid waste management unit at Vidyaranyapuram. The MCC has prepared a…
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Hindustan Unilever Limited recently laid the foundation stone for the first community biogas plant in Hari Ashray Colony, Haridwar. This project is being piloted to encourage sustainable waste management in the community. With implementing NGO…
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The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has issued the draft version for its tariff determination regulation order for renewable projects, including biomass power projects. The Regulation will apply to projects that are commissioned in the…
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As was reported by The Hindu, the groundbreaking ceremony for a paddy straw biogas project in Karnal, Haryana, was held on 18 October. The plant should be completed by 2022 and will produce compressed biogas…
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The 18 MWel plant in Jaitu, Faridkot, Punjab, is ready to generate electricity from paddy straw in this year’s season. According to The Tribune, the plant was built to keep local farmers from burning the…
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The Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan, has announced that USD 118 billion (INR 8,315,49 crore) will be invested in the oil and gas sector by 2024. That includes USD 60…
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A biogas and composting plant is planned to be built on a 1-acre site in Mohishgote, near New Town, Kolkata. As was reported by The Telegraph, the plant will process vegetable and fruit waste collected…
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California-based fuel cell producer Bloom Energy and EnergyPower have announced a joint project producing electricity from biogas in the Shirala district, Maharashtra. Energy Power will deploy a new AD plant to process both agricultural and…
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The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (LMC), Punjab, is proceeding with plans to build a biogas plant in the city. The plans were approved several years ago, but have not been pursued any further. The LMC now…
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According to The Hindustan Times, the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (LMC), Punjab, is proceeding with plans to build a biogas plant in the city. The plans were approved several years ago, but have not been pursued…
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Indian Oil Corporation Limited’s (IOCL) R&D unit has inaugurated a biogas demonstration biogas plant in Faridabad, Haryana. According to PSU Connect, the plant processes 5 tpd of organic waste to produce compressed biogas, which will…
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As part of the implication of the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, the South Dheli Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is intending to build two 200 tpd biogas plants. As reported by The Times of India, they…
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Shell India, subsidiary of Netherlands-based oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell, has invested INR 54,3127 crore (USD 7.7 million) in Indian biomass company Punjab Renewable Energy. According to Bioenergy Insight, Punjab Renewable Energy collects,…
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As reported by The Daily Pioneer, a new biogas plant running on solid waste and manure has been proposed in the city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand. The Municipal Corporation of Haridwar and Indian Oil Corporation Limited…
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As reported by mercomindia, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL) has planned various investments in renewable energy, including AD. Apart from heavily increasing engagements in solar, wind and biomass, IOCL is also introducing a strong focus…
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Godrej Consumer Products Ltd., in cooperation with the Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation (KDMC) and Green Roots Solutions (GRS), will construct an integrated waste management facility in Kalyan, Maharashtra. According to indiacsr, the facility will include a…
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A biogas plant will be built at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Agricultural University in Hisar, Haryana. The plant will be supplied with agricultural materials such as manure, wheat, cotton and dried leaves, from nearby farms,…
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According to The New Indian Express, the municipality of Jagatsinghpur intends to install a MRF and micro composting centre (MCC) at a cost of INR 15 to 20 lakhs. Until now the realization of the…
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According to The Times of India, Waste Processing and Management Private Ltd (NSWPMPL), a joint venture of Essel Infraprojects Ltd and Japan-based, HZI India Private Ltd. The state’s Swachh Bharat Mission department has now requested…
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The urban bodies in the federal state of Madhya Pradesh have been divided into 26 clusters for solid waste management. Amongst others, plans have been proposed for setting up 20 composting plants across the state.…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation has announced to start a call for tenders in the next week for the construction and maintenance of three biogas plants at Pallikaranai, Sholinganallur and a former asphalt complex in Anna…
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The City Corporation of Chennai has proposed a 50 tpd biogas plant in a central location in the city to process waste from the Hotels Association. The biogas produced will be liquefied and bottled as…
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According to The Tribune, a quarter of the new dairy AD project by the Municipal Corporation of Patiala, Punjab, has been completed. As reported in December 2018, the MC was seeking approval from the state…
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Authorities have approved 100 acres of land in Bhandara, Maharashtra, to build a facility to produce biogas and ethanol from paddy straw. According to The Times of India, ownership of the land was transferred from…
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According to MENAFN, several officials of South Delhi civic body have inaugurated the second AD plant at Dwarka Sector 14, Delhi. Yasasu EMS Pvt. Ltd. (now a subsidiary of Blue Planet Group) has developed the…
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Chander Mohan Guptam, the Mayor of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), has recently inaugurated a biogas unit and cow PRK unit at the stray cattle pound Dogra Hall Jammu. The source Greater Jammu does not provide…
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According to Mercom India, the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has released a tender for a 54 MW solar-biomass hybrid project, consisting of a 6 MW biomass plant and four 12 MW solar projects, which…
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A 7.5 MW WtE plant has been planned to be built in the Ramtekdi business district near Pune city. It is proposed to process 300 tonnes of waste daily and will be located close to…
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An Indian Government official has recently stated that the development of biogas and biogas upgrading units to substitute LPG should be brought into focus, which is expected to affect urban areas in particular. India’s energy…
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Although the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) has already allocated land for the biogas project at Tajpur Road in Buddha Nallah, Punjab, it has not yet been built, as it is still unclear if…
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Finnish technology company, Valmet has reported that it is going to deliver a recovery boiler and ash leaching plant to ITC’s Bhadrachalam pulp mill, to replace three existing boilers. Start-up is expected for late 2021.…
