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The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) will build 2 biogas projects at Kasba Bawda and at Kalamba, Kolhapur. Each plant will process 5 tpd of food waste from hotels, households and restaurants, entailing investments of EUR…
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After the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) government had originally agreed to shut down or relocate the Okhla WtE plant in New Delhi because it reportedly does not adhere to emission standards, the Delhi Pollution Control…
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India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) was said to have classified plasma pyrolysis as an accepted incineration process for biomedical and municipal solid waste. As stated, India currently has 11 plasma pyrolysis units, all…
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The country’s Ministry Of Urban Development (MUD) has announced to expect 10 WtE facilities to become operational in the state of Andhra Pradesh during the years 2017 and 2018. The plants should have a combined…
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Indian Overseas Bank has taken over a biomass plant of Global Power Tech Equipments (GPTL), subsidiary of Orient Green Power Company. The bank announced this decision after GPTL was not able to fulfil payment requirements.…
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Steel services company Mahindra Intertrade will partner with state-controlled MSTC Ltd. on building an automobile shredding and recycling plant in India. Mahindra has not disclosed the exact investment costs but it was said that the…
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The government of the state of Punjab has dropped its plans to set up a 13 MW WtE facility in the village of Jamsher. The plant was supposed to serve the 27 Urban Local Bodies…
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As a Detailed Project Report (DPR) is currently being prepared, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is looking to hold a tender in June to find an operator for its planned Deonar WtE facility. BMC previously…
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The Bawana WtE project has apparently stalled because of a dispute between the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and project developer Ramky Group on revenue sharing. The Bawana WtE plant is planned to have a…
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The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has announced to start construction works at its WtE project by the end of this May. KMC already awarded a construction and operations contract to company Rochem Separations Limited more…
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According to the city’s deputy mayor, a WtE plant is currently being discussed in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The proposed facility would have a generation capacity of 2 MW and treat 80 tpd of waste, which…
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The Ghazipur WtE plant is still in trail operations. As stated, the facility was already completed several months ago, but the government has not yet granted an approval for operations. The plant is said to…
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The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is expected to impose new waste legislation soon, following the union government’s 2016 Solid Waste Management Rule. The proposed policy includes a measure forbidding high calorific non-recyclable waste to…
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A WtE project is currently being proposed in the city of Ongole, Andhra Pradesh. According to a project report by Delhi-based company IPE Global Private Limited, the plant would have a treatment capacity of 200…
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Lead producing company Gravita India has entered into aluminium recycling at its recycling plant in Phagi, Jaipur. According to company officials, the initial capacity for the treatment of aluminium scrap will amount to an approximate…
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The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is going to set up a Construction and Demolition of Waste Processing Plant (CDWP) in Karnataka. The facility will cost around USD 870,000 and is planned in collaboration with the…
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Construction of the WtE plant planned in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, has still not begun. Apparently, the main reasons for the delay are conflicts about the feed-in tariff for the electricity to be produced. However, older sources…
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The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Punjab has claimed that the potential for small-scale biomass power plants in Punjab is not fully exploited. To overcome the national energy crisis, it is essential to…
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A generic feed-in tariff for power generated through WtE was set by the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC). The tariff for electricity produced through mass burning WtE projects was set as INR 6.5 per…
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Electronic City Industrial Township Authority (Elcita) is to build a new 100-tons-per-day solid waste management plant capable of processing mixed municipal waste in India. The plant is estimated to cost approximately INR 400 million and…
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) wants to set up three construction-waste and recycling plants in the outskirts of Bengaluru. Each of the facilities will be able to handle about 750 tons per day, totaling a…
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The Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC), state of Uttarakhand, is in the process of re-tendering a proposed waste treatment plant, which is planned to include RDF production, a recycling line and a composting unit. The first…
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The Indian state of Gujarat has announced a new policy to promote WtE solutions. Under the Gujarat Waste-To-Energy Policy 2016, urban local bodies (ULBs) will be required to provide land at a token leasing rate…
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Civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has issued a request for proposals for the development of three construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling facilities in the outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka. Each plant should have…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has apparently tendered a WtE project as a part of its new waste management plan. The tender was said to be won by an unnamed multinational company, whose facility in…
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A WtE project is apparently underway in Vasai-Virar, Maharashtra. In a media report, the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) was said to be executing the last steps of putting online a Waste-to-Energy plant. However, the…
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According to a media report by Live Mint, 24 WtE plants with a combined generation capacity of 233 MW are currently under construction in India, while five other projects with a capacity of 79 MW…
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India’s National Green Tribunal has approved plans by the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) to set up a WtE plant. Even as earlier sources report on possible project delays of up to two years due to…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will receive funds of INR 3.08 billion (USD 46.1 million) by the Maharshtra state government to finance its waste management plan, which includes WtE implementation. This comes after India’s National…
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According to media reports, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has already finalised on a bidder for its WtE project: consortium Spaak Bresson Private Limited (SBPL). SBPL consists of Czech company Bresson Energy, Dubai-based MGT Group…
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The current delays of the Srinangar WtE project are apparently due to differences on a Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA) between the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and the Power Development Department (PDD) of the state of…
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Almost 8 years after the Shishambara solid waste recycling plant was first proposed, the project might finally be realised. Reason for the delay was a petition by an individual that had stopped implementation of the…
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At the Happening Haryana investment summit, the renewable energy sector has made business commitments worth Rs 80,000 crore in the field of solar, biomass, micro hydroelectricity and Waste-to-Energy projects. The investment proposals are higher than…
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The Milk Producers Union Limited also known as Amul Dairy has installed an automated biogas generation and bottling plant to utilise the energy from its plant’s waste in Vadodara, Gujarat. Before, the dairy farm used…
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A recently released Detailed Project Report (DPR) on waste management by the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) also includes a scheme for WtE implementation. According to the plans, a 11.5 MW plant is proposed to be…
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WtE plans proposed by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) have been approved by the civic body’s General Body. The planned facility would be located near NMMC’s Turbhe landfill and have a generation capacity of…
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An MBT plant currently under construction in Saligao, Goa, has been announced to start trial operations on 1 April. The facility was said to have a 100 tpd capacity and to include RDF production, a…
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Company Banyan Nation, based in Hyderabad, has set up a new 300 tpd plastic automated recycling facility. The project was partly financed by USD 0.8 million of growth funds provided by investment firm KKR Global.…
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In its budget for 2016-2017, the Kochi Municipal Corporation (KMC) has affirmed its commitment to the Brahmapuram WtE project. Construction was announced to start within the next 6 months, with the plant scheduled to be…
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East Delhi’s second construction and demolition waste management facility has been commissioned. The plant is based on wet processing of construction and demolition waste and provides a capacity of approximately 500 tons per day. As…
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India’s Department of Technology and Science (DST) is going to establish a new, separate section to assess WtE technology. This was requested by the Ministry of Environment, which stated to receive many requests from the…
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As reported by The Times of India, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has ordered the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to purchase electricity produced by a WtE gasification plant operated by company Elephant Energy…
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At a recent WtE conference in New Delhi, Indian government officials have strongly emphasised the nation’s WtE potential. It was said that up to 6 GW could potentially be generated through WtE in the country.…
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As reported by The Times of India, the first construction and demolition waste recycling plant in Haryana is to be constructed about 14 kilometres from Gurgaon. The plant is planned at a site of 28…
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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), Maharashtra, has set aside INR 1.8 billion (USD 26.2 million) in its 2016/2017 budget for the implementation of a planned WtE project. The project should be located near a…
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As reported by Enerdata, the Indian Ministry of Power is expecting to attract investments of USD 1,000 billion by 2030 for the national coal and renewable energies sectors. By 2020, USD 1 billion go to…
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An RDF scheme in Ahmadebad, Gujarat, faces problems regarding the composition of local waste volumes. As stated by The Times of India, only 700 tpd of the 1,300 tpd of wet mixed waste committed to…
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According to officials of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC), the WtE plant currently being developed in Nakrawadi could be operational by the end of 2016. As reported by The Times of India, the project is…
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As reported by The Times of India, the civic body of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, will call for a tender to build a construction and debris recycling plant. The plant is estimated to cost about INR…
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As reported by The Hindu, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), a civic body of the Greater Bangalore metropolitan area, is seeking an insurance company for its landfills and waste processing plants. Background to this is…
