Aafrin Kidwai 
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The Jawaharnagar Waste to Energy (WtE) plant in Hyderabad will soon be enhanced to 48 MW. Currently, the plant is a functioning at a capacity of 19.8 MW.
The Jawaharnagar plant, which opened in August 2020, uses roughly 1200 tonnes of refuse-derived fuel per day. As of November 2021, 185 million units of electricity had been created by utilising 5.4 lakh tonnes of RDF since the WtE plant began operations. Hyderabad Integrated MSW Ltd operates the plant as part of the GHMC’s Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management (HiMSWM) Project.
In December 2020, the Telangana government had granted permission to expand the capacity of the existing 19.8 MW waste-to-energy facility in Jawaharnagar to 48 MW. The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change of the Government of India granted environmental clearance for the expansion of capacity in December 2021, as reported earlier on SolidWasteIndia.
Meanwhile, the GHMC is aiming to build a new 14.5 MW WtE plant on the Treatment Storage and Disposal Facility (TSDF) site in Dundigal, in the Medchal-Malkajgiri area. The facility is currently under development and is scheduled to open in September 2022.
