These 5 solid waste to energy plants operated by municipal corporations in India; 53 new in making

Waste to Energy Plants Operational & under various Stages of Implementation

5 Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) to Energy Plants with a cumulative installed capacity of 66.5 MW are currently operational/under trial run in the country. This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. The details are as follows:

List of waste to energy plants currently operational/under trial run in the country

S. No.	State	Name of the City/ Town	Capacity (MW)
	Maharashtra	Solapur	3.0
	Delhi	Okhla	12.0
	Delhi	Ghazipur	16.0
	Delhi	Narela-Bhawana	24.0
	Madhya Pradesh	Jabalpur	11.5
	Total		66.5

 The Minister further said that Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has received 53 proposals from 22 states with potential to generate 405.3 MW of electricity under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) which are currently under various stages of construction or tendering. The details of such tenders are:

 Waste to Energy Plants under various stages of Construction or Tendering

S. No.	State	No. of Plants	Total Proposed capacity (MW)
1	Andhra Pradesh	11	85
2	Assam	1	5
3	Bihar	1	12
4	Chhattisgarh	2	10
5	Delhi	1	1.6
6	Gujarat	3	30.5
7	Haryana	3	18.5
8	Himachal Pradesh	1	1.7
9	J&K	1	6.5
10	Jharkhand	2	23
11	Karnataka	2	20
12	Kerala	1	10
13	Madhya Pradesh	5	32
14	Maharashtra	3	28.5
15	Manipur	1	1
16	Odisha	1	11.5
17	Punjab	2	16
18	Rajasthan	3	26
19	Tamil Nadu	1	8
20	Telangana	1	11
21	Uttar Pradesh	5	25
22	West Bengal	1	22.5
Total		53	405.3

"Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has not received any fresh proposal for generation of electricity from Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW)", the Minister added.