The Hindu 06.06.2013
Delhi to get its second waste-to-energy plant
The second waste-to-energy plant in Delhi is now
scheduled to come up at Narela in North Delhi, the North Delhi Municipal
Corporation has announced.
To be built with Chinese
technology, the new waste-to-energy plant would come up near the
Narela-Bawana landfill site. It is expected to become ready by
August-end and start functioning on a trial basis from the first week of
September.
The plant, which is being constructed on a
public private partnership model with the Delhi Municipal Solid Waste
Solutions Limited, will dump only 10 per cent of the total waste at the
sanitary landfill site.
According to the NDMC
officials, the plant will generate 24 MW of electricity on daily basis
after consuming 1,200 tonnes of municipal waste.
“The
corporation has taken special care to check the groundwater and air
pollution. We have designed the plant in such a manner that it would
serve the dual purpose of adding the power generation capacity of the
city, as well as containing the need of sanitary land fill sites.
Besides the plant will dump only 10 per cent of the total waste and
thereby won’t burden the LFS,” said a corporation official.
“The
construction of the is nearing completion. We expect the trial run to
start by first week of September. The plant will become fully
operational by November end or December,” he added.
As per the project, only 10 per cent of the total waste will be dumped at the LFS after generation of power.