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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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As reported by The Hindu, the city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has announced plans to build multiple MRFs. The planned MRFs are part of a draft action plan the city had prepared. This was ordered by…
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Following increasing pollution of the Kallai River, Kozhikode Corporation plans to implement several measures to improve the local waste management. According to The Times of India, the plan includes construction of an INR 250 crore…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has announced that the commissioning of the 17 MW WtE facility in Kapulupada, Visakhapatnam, will commence in late 2019. As reported by The Hindu, construction of the INR 130…
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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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The development of the WtE facility in Sindri, Dhanbad, is making progress. According to the mayor of Dhanabad, 30 acres of land necessary for the construction have been acquired already. As reported by The Telegraph,…
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According to The Times of India, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and the Varanasi Municipal Corporation (Nagar Nigam) towards the establishment of a WtE plant. The…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation has issued plans to set up several WtE plants in the city. According to The Times of India, one WtE facility will be completed in Manali in August, while others have…
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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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The Peringamala WtE project has been proposed to be relocated to a government-owned 15 to 20 acres of land in Muttathara. As reported by The Deccan Chronicle, the plant will be executed as a PPP…
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In Kerala, the construction of an e-waste, plastic and glass waste sorting and recycling facility has been proposed. Moreover, district-level facilities for the collection and sorting of non-biodegradable waste are being planned. According to The…
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According to the Department of Rural Development, the districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, in Karnataka, will each get a MRF to segregate dry waste. Currently, the search for location is underway. As reported by…
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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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The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has recently extended the validity of the generic tariff set for municipal solid waste (MSW) projects in the state till 2020. According to Mercom India, a tariff of INR 7.08…
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According to the Orissa Post, the proposal by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) for setting up a 11 MW WtE plant at Bhuasuni dumpsite is still waiting for approval. According to the source, the Terms of…
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The Ministry of Steel has released a draft policy aimed at increasing self-sufficiency and curtailing dependency on imports. To achieve this, high-quality ferrous scrap should be produced locally. As reported on Recycling Today, this entails…
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In an attempt to clear the landfill site in Mysuru, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) plans to treat 200,000 tonnes of waste. A small part of biodegradable waste will be used as compost, while the…
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The Peringamala WtE plant has been proposed to be built on a 15-acre plot belonging to the District Agro Farm. The proposed plant will cost INR 390 crores. The plan is currently being challenged by…
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According to The New Indian Express, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner, Manjunath Prasad, has recently stated that a proposal was sent to the state government for the use of land in Kannalli and…
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The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has received administrative approval for an INR 12.56 crore project to upgrade its Pachchanady solid waste management plant. According to www.thehindu.com, the project entails the installation of two pre-sorting machines,…
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According to The Telegraph India, a 20-acre plot has been selected for setting up a waste recycling centre for processing waste from New Town, Bidhannagar and three boroughs of the city. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been…
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As reported by The Herald, a solid waste management plant will be built by Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) in Banguinim, Goa. The total cost is expected to amount to INR 248.5 crores. The plant…
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Energy technology company, Abellon CleanEnergy Limited, has entered a technical agreement with German AD plant manufacturer, Agraferm Group, to develop several biogas projects. The first phase will consist of setting up plants only in Gujarat…
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Tata Steel is planning to build a steel recycling plant in Rohtak, Haryana, with an annual processing capacity of about 500,000 tonnes, costing INR 48 crores. According to Recycling International, Tata Steel expects the plant…
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According to local news reports at The Times of India, the planned RDF production facility in Bainguinim will be fast-tracked to commence waste processing. An official stated that the plant was expected to be commissioned…
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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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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation WtE plant has started generating energy from waste. According to The Times of India, the plant produced 12 MW of electricity from processing 1500 tonnes of waste at its first run.…
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Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has announced that six acres of land will be given to a consortium comprising of Brazilian firm, Lara Enviro, and Anthony Enviro Private Ltd., for the construction of Moshi garbage depot.…
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The Tiruchirappalli Corporation and Dhandapani Cements have signed a MoU to co-incinerate 3 tonnes per day as RDF in the cement kilns. According to The Times of India, inert waste which cannot be composted, will…
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As reported by The Hans India, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has built a C&D waste recycling plant at Jeedimetla, Hyderabad, with a processing capacity of 500 tonnes per day. Trial runs at the…
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In January 2018, an INR 120 crore contract to construct a 5 MW WtE plant in Achan, Kashmir, was awarded to a consortium of companies including Highland Automobiles Private Ltd., Key Stone Energy Ltd. and…
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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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The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) have founded a joint venture (JV) towards the establishment of a WtE plant. According to the source, Mercom India, the WtE facility will…
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According to The Hindu, the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has recently signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Kochi-based GJ Eco Power, the company implementing the Brahmapuram WtE plant. According to the agreement, KSEB…
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According to the source Times of India, a 1.5 MW WtE plant in Manali will be operational within the next days. Information regarding the technology employed by the plant has not been stated in the…
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According to The Deccan Herald, the construction of a 500 tpd WtE plant in Chikkanagamangala is expected to commence in three months. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stated that the site will be inspected…
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A committee appointed by the Supreme Court has approved the setup of a 10 MW WtE plant in Agra, following an expert review on the environmental impact of the plant. The WtE facility, which has…
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The development of a WtE facility at the Bhandewadi landfill site has faced several problems so far, as ecoprog reported. Operator Essel Infraprojects, which is partnering with Hitachi Zosen India Private Ltd., has now proposed…
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As reported by The Times of India, a new waste management plant is currently being built in Shivri. The facility, which has been designed to convert 1,500 tonnes of waste into 15 MWel per day,…
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The Daily Pioneer reports that Delhi Metro has announced to have started receiving 2 MWel from the 12 MW WtE plant located in Ghazipur, from June 2019. The RDF-fired plant, set up by East Delhi…
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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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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has announced its first WtE plant with a processing capacity of 300 tpd to be set up in Njeliyanparama in Kozhikode. The project cost is estimated to be…
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The Times of India reports that the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has threatened to terminate the WtE project contract with Essel Infraprojects Private Ltd. and Hitachi Zosen India Private Ltd. due to the delay in…
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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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The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has approved two power purchase agreements (PPA) that had been signed between Accord Hydroair (Pikhuwa) Private Limited and Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) in April 2018. According…
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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.…
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According to reports from the Indian Express, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has extended the tender for the WtE facility for another month, as no bidder was found. The tendering process started over a year…
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Costs for the 8 MW Brahmapuram WtE plant in Kochi, have increased from INR 295 crores to INR 375 crores due to inaccurate estimations, the Times of India reports. The facility is being developed as…
