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According to Mercom India, the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has approved a program for the promotion of waste recovery called “Energy from Urban, Industrial and Agricultural Waste/Residue”. The MNRE will provide…
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As announced by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, construction work at the Bhalswa waste-to-energy plant will commence by the end of August. This will mark the city´s fourth WtE plant after Ghazipur, Narela-Bawana and Okhla.…
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Austrian AD plant manufacturer Biogest was contracted to build an agricultural biogas plant in Haryana, Northern India. As reported by Renewable Energy Magazine, the new unit will be developed in cooperation with OliveResolutions GmbH, Astron…
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The government of Rajasthan plans to build biogas plants at more than 2,800 gaushalas (cow shelters) in the state at costs of INR 10 million (EUR 124,000) each, according to the Daily News and Analysis.…
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A small-scale biogas plant that was successfully installed in Katraj, a suburb of Pune, Maharashtra, has been shut down two years ago, reported the Pune Mirror. The site has been used as a scrapyard ever…
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According to the source, the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) has signed a memorandum of understanding with an unnamed French company for the realisation of the Mavallipura WtE plant. The MoU is aimed at setting…
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According to local news reports, the Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has announced the construction of three further RDF production facilities. The plants shall be implemented in Cacora, Bainguinim and Verna. As Global CemFuels reported,…
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According to local news reports, the Public Authorities of Goa have approved approx. USD 12 million to upgrade the RDF facility at Saligao, which shall allow for it to double its RDF production capacity. The…
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According to data collected by the Indian Ministry of Power, the country’s federal states do not buy enough renewable energy (RE) to achieve the goal of an RE capacity of 175 GW by 2022. The…
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According to The Times of India, the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) is to build an INR 200 million (EUR 2.48 million) sorting plant at its site in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The source does neither comment…
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The Manohar Lal Khattar Government, Haryana, plans to set up bio-CNG and biogas units at all gaushalas (cow shelters) in the state of Haryana, according to the Daily Pioneer. Under a so-called Gobardhan scheme, biogas…
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According to Energy Infra Post, the installed biomass capacity in India grew from 4.95 GW in March 2016 to 8.4 GW at the end of 2017, so the country is likely to reach its target…
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According to United News of India, the governments of India and Oman are discussing the construction of a WtE plant in India. However the proposed capacities of the project disclosed in the source remain unrealistic.…
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The city corporation of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has announced plans to restore 10 small-scale currently dysfunctional community biogas plants. The plants are dysfunctional for several reasons, mainly due to a lack of proper operation, e.g. overloading.…
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According to Energy Infra Post, India’s capital Delhi has plans for setting up 10 biomethanation facilities across the city. The plants are expected to generate electricity to be fed into the grid as well as…
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Essel Infraprojects has announced the commencement of construction at Nagpur waste-to-energy plant in Maharashtra. This has been reported by United News of India. For this puropse, the company has set up a subsidiary, Nagpur Solid…
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For the implementation of its “Urban Solid Waste Management Initiative (USWMI)” the government of Kerala has earmarked INR 20 million (EUR 250,000) for waste management projects, as reported by The Times of India. The government…
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The city of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, currently plans to reopen a bio-methanation plant which was built in 2004 in Singh Nagar, Vijayawada, as reported by Deccan Chronicle. By doing so, the city hopes to generate…
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According to The New Indian Express, a currently shut-down biogas plant in Ajith Singh Nagar, Punjab, will not be revived again. Reportedly, the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation has not received any bids from companies in a…
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The Chief Minister of the federal state of Punjab has recently granted in-principle approval for nine biogas projects to be located across the state, according to Outlook India. The projects would entail a combined investment…
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Outlook India reports, that Verbio India Private Limited has received the approval letter by the Chief Minister of Punjab for its biogas project in the village of Bhutal Kalan, Lehragaga tehsil, Sangrur district. Verbio had…
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The WtE plant in Jawahar Nagar, which should be operational at the end of the year, is going to create higher costs than previously thought, as reported by The Hindu. Main reason for that should…
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According to The Times of India, the Solid Waste Management Project in Gurugam, Haryana, which should have a capacity of 100 MWel and will cost around INR 4.3 billion (EUR 55 million) is facing problems.…
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According to the report by the Centre for Science and Environment, the government of Delhi has issued a list of approved fuels. Biogas and Refuse-derived fuel (allowed only for waste-to-energy plants) are included. Furthermore, the…
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Joint venture CERO has opened a car recycling facility in Delhi. CERO is a partnership between Mahindra Accelo, a steel service subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra, and government-owned company MSTC, reports the Business Standard. According…
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According to Global CemFuel, UltraTech Cement’s Reddipalayam cement plant at Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, has started receiving MSW waste from the Vellore Municipal Corporation. The Reddipalayam cement plant normally treats RDF from a 150km radius but…
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As ecoprog reported last week, the Noida 123 Sector WtE project has been brought to a halt, due to the Chief Minister’s intervention. He ordered the plant to be relocated to a site outside of…
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Delhi-based private company AG Dauters Waste Processing Pvt Ltd proposed to start 20 WtE projects, similar to the one in Patna, in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana by 2019. However the…
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According to the Telegraph India, a Delhi-based private company has shown interest in establishing a waste-to-energy plant in the city of Patna. The company named AG Dauters Waste Processing Pvt Ltd proposed to convert 700…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) is setting up its first biogas plant on two acres of land near the Ghazipur dairy. The proposed facility should have a capacity of 2 MWel by processing 100…
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The housing and urban development department of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, has started construction of a plastic waste treatment plant at a dumping yard in Bhuasuni, Odisha, according to Telegraph India. As further reported, another plastic treatment…
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A new AD plant is being developed by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) Goa Campus, as The Times of India reported. The INR 14 million (EUR 175,541) project’s location has…
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The Times of India has reported that construction works for the Ghaziabad WtE plant are likely to begin soon, as the land acquisition process was completed recently. Indian company Accord Hydro was awarded the contract…
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The council of Navelim, north Goa, has issued a proposal to set up a biogas plant to solve the local garbage problem, according to Navhind Times. It should run on garbage from eateries and restaurants.…
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According to India Today, construction works for the controversial New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) WtE project in Sector 123 have been stopped by the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. As a consequence of strong public…
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According to The Economic Times, some obstacles in the area of Goods and Services Tax have caused a delay in the commissioning of the MBT projects to be developed at the Jaipur and New Delhi…
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According to The Times of India, after a delay of over two years, the tariff per unit of energy generated by the planned WtE plant in Brahmapuram has been determined. The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory…
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According to a report by The Economic Times, Essel Infra has won three tenders for the construction and operation of WtE projects in Kadapa, Anantpur and TP Gudem in South East India. According to Essel…
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There are plans for setting up small-scale AD plants at each of the 25 gaushalas (cow shelters) currently registered in the federal state of Rajasthan, according to The Hindu. The state government’s Gopalan Department will…
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Mumbai-based company Variate Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. is interested in constructing a WtE plant in Belgavi, Karnataka, as reported by the Economic Times. By cooperating with Korean firm POSH, it wants to generate power out of…
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The state government of Karnataka has decided to choose another location for the Gorur, Magadi taluk Waste-to-Energy plant. According to the report by the New Indian Express, the plant is likely to be moved to…
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According to Telegraph India, the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced that the municipality terminated the contract with the agency, which had been assigned to establish a Waste-to-Energy plant in Patna, Bihar. According to Patna’s…
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According to the Chief Minister of Karnataka, the state government is planning to establish Waste-to-Energy units in all the six municipal solid waste processing plants in the state. He emphasised on the use of WtE…
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One of the two landfills serving Dhaka city, the Matuail landfill, is expected to reach its full capacity in a few years, reported the Daily Star. The site is used by the Dhaka South City…
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According to The Daily Star, one of the two landfills serving Dhaka city, the Matuail landfill, is expected to reach its full capacity in a few years. The site is used by the Dhaka South…
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According to the Business Standard, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanfara Palike (BBMP) and French-based company 3Wayste have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a WtE plant in Chikkanagamangla. According to the MoU, BBMP will deliver…
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In March 2018, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has begun to cap the landfill in Jawaharnagar, which stores 14 million tons of garbage, as reported by Telangana Today. At the site, around 2,000 tpd…
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The Punjab Energy Development Authority (PEDA) has announced that the state will no longer buy power generated from biomass, because it is too costly, as reported by The Hindustan Times. The Indian Union Ministry of…
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The city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, has announced plans for a new WtE plant in Langdiyawas, according to the Economic Times. Currently, the city converts its MSW into compost, and the remaining amounts into RDF. According…
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American financial investor KKR is acquiring a 60 % share of India-based waste management company Ramky Enviro Engineers, reports the Economic Times. The deal is worth USD 600 million. Ramky Enviro is valued at USD…
