Built by the GHMC (Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation) a 19.8 MW waste to energy plant was commissioned with the help of The Hyderabad MSW Energy Solutions, a special purpose vehicle (SPV)in Jawahar Nagar, Telangana.
It has the capacity of converting almost 1200 tons of waste into green energy. It is currently in its phase 1 and in phase 2, it will have an increased capacity of 28.2 MW. It is the first plant to be set up in South India. In phase one of the project, it has RDF fired boilers along with a multi-stage Flue gas cleaning system. It is capable of deploying thermal combustion to dispose of RDF and thereby creating power. The plant is state of the art and uses technology that comes from Belgium (Reciprocating Grate technology). As per the assessment, it will be capable of producing 98MW of WTE in the next five years.
So now many of us might wonder what WTE is?
WTE or waste to energy is a process in which household waste and other forms of waste will be converted to a source of energy such as electricity or heat.
It is a viable option for waste disposal as the waste which usually are dumped in landfills etc. can now be used to generate energy. The only thing that keeps increasing in the world without getting exhausted is waste. It is estimated that around 3.5 million tons of waste are generated each day. If we are able to convert at least a fraction of this waste annually it can be a renewable source of energy for us humans.
Every year the total waste output increases as our consumption increases.
The human population is booming which has a direct effect on the waste generated annually.
With the advent and use of plants such as these, we will be able to dispose of the waste effectively and generate energy at the same time which can be used by us.
Apart from phase two expansion of this plant, it has also attained permission for building another similar plant in Dundigal which will have a capacity of 14.5 MW. The nation needs to make more conservative approaches such as this to ace in the sustainable energy sector and reach greater heights.
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