NDMC plans to meet its power needs from waste, plans 2 large waste-to-energy plants.

As part of the Smart City project, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) plans to become energy-neutral-generating as much power as it consumes-by March 2016. After setting up small-scale waste-to-energy plants in its jurisdiction, the civic agency is planning to set up a big plant that will generate about 100MW power in a day.

The civic agency will soon float a tender for the project that is likely to come up in south Delhi.

'Our plan is to become energy-neutral by 2016. We plan to set up a waste-to-energy project which will generate 96MW in a day (4MW per hour) from 170 metric tonnes of waste. This will help us achieve our target of 200MW-plus power per day. We plan to set up two such plants,' said Jalaj Shrivastava, chairman, NDMC.

The civic agency's daily consumption is 160MW, which increases to 200MW -250MW during peak season. NDMC is also setting up solar panels on its buildings to generate power as part of its Solar City project. It is working out a way for solar panels to be installed on private buildings.

'We hope to generate at least 10MW from the solar project, another 10MW or so from other waste-to-energy projects and 190MW from the two waste-to-energy plants which will use the entire waste generated in a day,'' said Shrivastava.


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