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Finnish technology provider Valmet Oyj has announced the delivery of a recovery boiler upgrade to Kuantum Papers Limited in Punjab, India. The project has an estimated duration of 1 year, with installation scheduled for February…
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A biogas plant is currently under construction in Akhara, Punjab. Once operational, the plant should process organic waste to produce biogas. The plant is facing opposition from local residents who are calling for construction to…
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Nestlé India has announced plans to install nearly 70 large biodigesters and over 3,000 small biodigesters in 24 districts across Punjab and Haryana. The larger agricultural AD facilities should convert cattle manure into biogas for…
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The Bathinda Municipal Corporation is planning to construct a biogas plant in Bathinda, Punjab, under the SATAT programme (Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation). The project should be executed as a public-private partnership (PPP). The plant…
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The Bathinda Municipal Corporation is planning to construct a biogas plant in Bathinda, Punjab, under the SATAT programme (Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation). The project should be executed as a public-private partnership (PPP). The plant…
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The Municipal Corporation of Ludhiana, Punjab, has issued a new WtE proposal to the Municipal Infrastructure Development Company (PMIDC). The proposal reportedly provides for a waste complex including garbage processing, bioremediation of legacy waste, as…
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The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) and public gas company GAIL India Limited have signed an agreement to develop 10 new CBG plants in Punjab. According to the agreement, the plants should, in total, process…
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The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) to set up 10 compressed biogas (CBG) projects in Punjab. The plants are expected to produce a…
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The Government of the state of Punjab is planning to develop a CBG plant in Baroti village, Hoshiarpur district. Plans provide for the plant to process 49,350 tpy of agricultural residues to produce 20 tpd…
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The WtE project at the Bhagtanwala landfill in Amritsar, Punjab, is reportedly threatened by a property dispute and the omission of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) to issue a non-objection certificate (NOC) to…
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The Indian Ministry of Finance announced plans to build 500 new AD plants across the country, of which 75 are to be build in urban areas. Most of the urban plants should be build in…
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The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy of the State of Punjab has proposed plans to develop 100 MWel of biomass power projects. According to the report, the Ministry is seeking Viability Gap Funding of…
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Addressing participants at a workshop in Chandigarh, Union Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Mr Bhupender Yadav commended the collaborative efforts of all stakeholders to substantially bring down the paddy farm fire counts during…
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In Punjab, a dairy farmer has installed a new AD plant that gets fed with manure originating from his 150 cows, according to a news report. The plant produces biogas that gets delivered to local…
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An upgraded solid waste processing plant has recently been commissioned at Dadumajra in Chandigarh City, Punjab. The plant should process dry waste for conversion into RDF. At the facility built in 2008, as further stated,…
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Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) intends to set up a CBG plant at the Haibowal Dairy Complex in Ludhiana, Punjab. As part of the so-called Buddha Nullah Rejuvenation Project, the future plant should be used…
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According to the Times of India, two additional CGB plants running on paddy straw are expected to start operations by year-end. One facility using 5,000 tonnes of paddy straw is planned to be erected in…
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Punjab’s New and Renewable Energy Sources Minister Aman Arora has emphasized the need to make optimum use of municipal solid waste to generate green energy and biofuel. The minister declared that his government is committed…
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The Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant in the village of Bhutal Kalan in Sangrur district, Punjab, has now started commercial CGB production. The plant producing 33.23 tpd was commissioned in April 2022. As per earlier information,…
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The Haibowal in Ludhiana, Punjab, is not working at full capacity. The plant at Hambran road is running at 100 to 125 tpd of cow dung, whereas its regular capacity is at least 225 tpd.…
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Five biogas projects accepting paddy straw are to be built in Punjab, according to the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA). As reported, a corresponding agreement has been signed recently by PEDA and M/s EverEnviro Resource…
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Two energy projects are being proposed at the location of the Bhogpur Cooperative Sugar Mill in Bhogpur, Punjab. A 15 MW power plant not further specified is reportedly to be built, as well as a…
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Invest Punjab has signed an MoU recently with the Punjab State Office-Renewable Gas Association of India (PSO-RGAI). The new agreement aims at promoting the development of biofuel compressed biogas (CBG) plants in Punjab. As reported…
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The Government of Punjab has unanimously passed a bill to renegotiate FiTs under Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in place between the public utility Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) and renewable energy generators. Reportedly, the…
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The compressed biogas plant in the Sangrur district of Chandigarh, Punjab, is set to be commissioned in January 2022, according to a Times Now report. The plant should process paddy straw stubble to produce 33…
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A proposed WtE project in Samgoli, Dera Bassi, has been scrapped by the authorities of Punjab. As further reported, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and the Mohali Municipal Corporation (MC) received approval by the…
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Two paddy straw biomass projects in Punjab are facing delays and are now expected to become operational in 2022, as reported by The Times of India. This includes a 10 MW project in Fatehgarh Sahib…
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The bio-CNG plant in the village of Bhutal Kalan, Punjab, is due to become operational by November 2021. The plant located in Lehra Tehsil, Sangrur district, is supposed to process up to 150,000 tpy of…
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On 22 June, 10 councillors and officials of the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) have visited a waste processing plant in the city of Ambala, Haryana to study technology for processing dry waste. However, as further…
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Punjab has achieved almost 100 per cent door-to-door collection and segregation of municipal solid waste, Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan has said. The Chief Secretary said that the state would intensify its efforts for the management…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to seize bank guarantees of Zirakpur, Banur and Nayagaon municipal councils. The committee directed the PPCB to encash Rs 2 lakh bank…
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The Punjab government has decided to build a 7MW waste to energy plant at Simgauli in Mohali district. The plant, spread over an area of 50 acres, will be designed to generate electricity of 600…
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has imposed a Rs 10 lakh bank guarantee on private firm A2Z Waste Management for poor management of solid waste at the Tajpur Road garbage dump. The firm is…
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The 18 MWel plant in Jaitu, Faridkot, Punjab, is ready to generate electricity from paddy straw in this year’s season. According to The Tribune, the plant was built to keep local farmers from burning the…
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According to The Hindustan Times, the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (LMC), Punjab, is proceeding with plans to build a biogas plant in the city. The plans were approved several years ago, but have not been pursued…
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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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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 cities of Amritsar, Bathinda, Mohali, Rupnagar, Moonak, and Nawanshahr, in Punjab plan to set up WtE plants, as was reported by The Economic Times. For this purpose, the government of Punjab intends to introduce…
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Punjab Renewable Energy Systems (PRESPL), an Indian biomass supplier, plans to raise around inr 69.55 crores in a Series B funding round, according to Bioenergy Insight. The company plans to obtain INR 34.77 crores from…
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Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has initiated the revival of a 10 MW biomass power plant in Jalkheri, Punjab, which has been idle for 11 years, on renovate, operate and transfer (ROT) basis, according…
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Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. has announced plans to develop a new 60 MW biomass plant in Punjab, following the closure of two thermal plants in Bathinda and Ropar with a combined capacity of 880…
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The Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Radha Mohan Singh, has recently urged Indian farmers to make use of new methods for treating crop residues, including biogas production. According to Devdiscourse, the government will allocate…
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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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Indian biogas company Rika Biofuels plans to invest up to USD 150 million (EUR 127 million) in 10 new bio CNG plants in Punjab, northern India, according to the Economic Times. The company has signed…
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The government of Punjab, northern India, has approved an INR 710 million (EUR 8.7 million) bio-compressed natural gas project, as reported by the Business Standard. The project will be set up by Verbio India Private…
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In a meeting with the Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh, it was decided that a waste-to-energy plant would be set up at the Sugarfed plant in Nakodar by March. According to Tribune India, this would…
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In the course of Punjab’s government’s goal to cope with paddy straw management the government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Oil Corporation to plan several AD plants. To start the project the government…
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According to The United News of India, the local government of Punjab aims to support biogas projects in Moga by subsidising costs. Therefore, a new AD plant owner in the rural areas should get a…
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Jindal Infrastructure Limited (JITF) Company plans to set up an 8 MW solid waste treatment plant in Bathinda, Punjab. The company operates an RDF plant, which processes waste from the city along with 18 other…
