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According to DNA India, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) currently plans to appoint Tata Consulting Engineers Limited for carrying out a feasibility study for the WtE project at the landfill site in Deonar, a suburb…
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According to The Hindu, the WtE project close to the Naidupeta Mandal landfill, Andhra Pradesh, is making progress. On 6 February, an MoU was signed between JITF Urban Infrastructure Ltd and 9 urban local bodies,…
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Periodic fires at the Deonar dumping site in Mumbai have led the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to propose a plan for the capture of methane gases generated at the 12.7-million ton landfill. As…
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According to The Economic Times, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has assigned the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) that it should submit the so-called inspection report on WtE and thermal power plants located in New…
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After the National Green Tribunal suggested to the Northern Railway Station in Delhi to install an AD plant to produce biogas, the Delhi Division has taken the initiative. As reported by India Today, the biogas…
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After the National Green Tribunal suggested to the Northern Railway Station in Delhi to install an AD plant to produce biogas, the Delhi Division has taken the initiative. As was reported by India Today, the…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has inaugurated five Fixed Compactor Transfer Stations (FCTS), which are supposed to supply its Okhla WtE plant. In the FCTS, segregated waste material undergoes compression and moisture extraction, preparing…
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As reported by The Hindu, new information is available on the Naidupeta WtE project proposed by the Guntur Municipal Corporation, Andhra Pradesh. The facility is planned to have a treatment capacity of 1,200 tpy, generating…
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Erode Corporation has inaugurated a new biogas plant. According to The Hindu, the facility processes 10 m³ of digestable waste such as vegetable wastes, leaves, food and discarded meat daily and is operated by Pune-based…
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India is targeting a renewable energy share of 40 % of the country’s total energy mix by 2030. Currently, renewables account for 13%. According to livemint, various US companies, including the US Export Import Bank,…
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The Greater Visakhaptanam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is said to sign a concessionaire agreement regarding the development of a WtE plant with company Jindal Infrastructure Transportation Fabrication (JITF). This is contrary to earlier sources, which said…
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Japanese company Hitachi Zosen Corporation has expressed interest to participate in the State of Haryana’s plans on WtE implementation. However, no specific project was outlined. As reported by The Tribune, Haryana’s Chief Minister is currently…
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At the recent CII Partnership Summit, held in Visakhapatnam, the state government of Andhra Pradesh has apparently signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with an unnamed private company to set up a WtE plant. As reported…
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Indian energy company Starlight Energy Limited has received in-principle approval from Odisha’s State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) for its BtE project at Goud Sariguda in Kalahandi District. The cooperation is planning to construct…
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The 700 tpd WtE project in Patna, Bihar, will be delayed. In 2014, the Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (BUIDCO) awarded the contract for the project to company Sunil Hitech Engineers Ltd (SHE). However, it…
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According to The Hindu, the state government of New Delhi and HTF Urban Infrastructure of New Delhi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for building a WtE plant. The source does not specify the…
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Clean Kerala Company, an Indian agency that assures hygiene management in the state of Kerala, is to take over the West Hill plastic waste recycling plant from Kozhikode Municipal Corporation. However, no contracts have been…
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According to the Power Ministry, India’s cabinet is likely to approve a new electricity tariff policy in February. As stated by The Economic Times, this will include measures to promote WtE generation, such as purchasing…
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According to The New Indian Express, the Brahmapuram WtE project has now also been approved by the Kochi Municipal Corporation. Furthermore, public sector undertaking KITCO was said to conduct an additional feasibility study. In December…
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Indian infrastructure company Cereba Integrated Technologies Limited has announced to open its e-waste recycling facility in Bangalore, Karnataka, in April 2016. According to Business Standard, the plant is located on a 12-acre industrial land and…
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According to new reports by Waste Management World, the planned WtE plant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, should reach treatment and generation capacities of 1,000 tpy and 11.5 MW respectively. Earlier sources had announced a planned…
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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is to set up a C&D waste processing plant at Wagholi, Maharashtra. It will be the second one in India after an installation in Delhi from 2011. According to The Pune…
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According to The Times of India, New Delhi’s government is currently exploring the possibility to turn the currently defunct 130 MW coal-fired Rajghat power plant into a WtE facility. Delhi’s Power Secretary announced that the…
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The state cabinet of Kerala has awarded the contract for the 330 tpd Brahmapuram WtE project to company GL Nature Care Consortium, as reported by The Times of India. The facility, which will be developed…
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Essel Infraprojects Limited (EIL), subsidiary of conglomerate Essel Group, has officially opened its WtE plant in Vengadamangalam, Tamil Nadu. This was reported by Business Standard. The 2.9 MWel facility was developed under a design-build-operate-transfer (DBOT)…
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IT company Cerebra Integrated Technologies has started construction on an e-waste recycling facility located in Narsapura, Bangalore, as reported by the source. The plant was said to be finished within 6 months as Cerebra will…
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The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has proposed to set up a WtE plant in order to tackle the city’s waste management problems. This was reported by The Times of India. The facility should be…
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India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered inspections of the delayed WtE plants in Ghazipur and Bawana, in order to prevent further delays of the commissioning process. The WtE facilities in Rajghat and Badarpur will…
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The civic body-owned West Hill Recycling plant in Kozhikode, Kerala, may resume operation under the control of a new contractor that is likely to be Niravu. The plant, which was shut down due to difficulties…
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The INR 6.2 million West Hill plastic recycling plant in Kozhikode, Kerala, had to shut down temporarily due to difficulties in running the plant, according to The Times of India. People residing in the area…
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Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM), the carmaker’s Indian subsidiary, is currently considering to set up a car recycling facility, as reported by Recycling International. TKM is expecting a rapidly growing number of scrap cars in the…
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As reported by The Hans India, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has started operations of its new construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant. GHMC has recently entered a 10-year operations contract with company…
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Construction works have begun at a biomass plant in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The CHP facility Chhatta 2 will have a capacity of 18 MW and is an extension for the already operating 16 MW facility…
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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), Maharashtra, plans to develop a WtE plant in the suburb of Turbhe, as reported by The Hindu. The PPP project may be carried out under the Swachh Bharat Mission,…
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The Udupi City Municipal Council has released an invitation to tender for the preparation of a detailed project report for setting up a WtE plant at the Solid Waste Management Plant in Alevoor, a village…
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As reported by The Times of India, the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) will decide on a proposed 600 tpd WtE plant processing municipal waste to be located in Daighar, Maharashtra. The decision will be made…
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Construction works at an MBT facility atop the Calangute plateau in Calangute, Goa, have recently started. The plant, which comprises an MBT, a recycling, a biogas section and a landfill site for the inert waste…
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Canadian company Auto Thermic Gasification Solution Ltd. has proposed to set up a WtE facility on a private-public partnership basis at the Devguradia trenching ground in the city of Indore, Madhya Pradesh. According to company…
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Several companies from Finland are planning to set up animal waste management, solid waste management and sewage treatment plants in Vadodara, Gujarat. A group of delegates from Finland are going to sign a MoU with…
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According to The Times of India, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has announced that plans for a 48 MW WtE plant in Jawaharnagar, Andhra Pradesh, were dismissed. In 2013, GHMC had said construction on…
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The council of the urban area of Kochi, Kerala, has voted in favour of the planned 300 tpd WtE plant in Brahmapuram, despite major criticism from the opposition. According to earlier information, it is not…
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German Waste-to-Energy company Intec Micro Powder AG is currently planning a WtE plant in the district of Howrah, West Bengal. The district, which produces 500 tons of waste per day, will provide the land for…
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The municipality of Kochi may have to buy the electricity produced at the planned Brahmapuram WtE plant. At present, two companies are bidding for the operation of the plant under a BOT contract. However, Kochi…
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The New Indian Express reports that officials of the Kochi urban area struggle with the implementation of a WtE plant to solve the city’s waste crisis. Kitco and Suchitwa Mission, the two companies chosen to…
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The administration for infrastructure in Bangalore, called Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), is searching for alternatives to landfilling waste in collaboration with Swedish WtE experts. From 1 December 2014 on, no more waste will be…
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The Ghazipur WtE plant in East Delhi will enter test operation next month. The plant faced several delays since 2010 when one partner left the project (see also issue 2010-19). 1,300 tonnes of waste will…
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The WtE plant in Okhla was subject to heavy public opposition in the past. Residents criticised that the plant had been emitting thick black smoke and had covered areas of the city in ash in…
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Authorities of the industrial town Noida, Uttar Pradesh, announced that they plan to set up a WtE plant in the city by 2016. Current plans provide for a 10 MW, 1,000 tpd facility. The bids…
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As only 19 per cent of India’s MSW is treated (with 170,000 tons being produced daily), a WtE task force has elaborated a report on the technical and financial feasibility of WtE technologies. Besides properly…
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According to the source, Hitachi Zosen India Private Limited, subsidiary of plant manufacturer Hitachi Zosen Inova AG, has signed an agreement with Jabalpur Municipal Corporation to build a waste incineration plant in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.…
