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Waste-to- energy plant to come up at Nellore
Waste being generated in the city will not be unproductive hereafter as the State government has planned to generate power from it.
- 20 acres of land allotted to Hyderabad-based firm on outskirts of city
- Plant to become fully operational in next 18 months
- Government to purchase power from plant at Rs 7.50 per unit for a period of 25 years
Nellore: Waste being generated in the city will not be unproductive hereafter as the State government has planned to generate power from it. Towards this purpose, it has allocated 20 acres of land on the outskirts of the city at Venkatachalam for setting up a plant, to Hyderabad-based Enviro Care. The plant would be set up on a Public-private partnership (PPP) mode and would become operational in the next 18 months.
The State government had planned to produce 63 MW power from the waste being generated in the State and had proposed plants at Nellore, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Tadepalligudem, Guntur, Machilipatnam, Tirupati, Kurnool, Anantapur, and Kadapa districts for converting the waste to energy, under ‘Swacch Andhra Corporation’. According to a senior official from Nellore Municipal Corporation, the Corporation had signed MoUs with Jindal, Essel, Envee Care and Nexus Nova groups to set up plants at Vizianagaram, Guntur, Tirupati, Nellore, Anantapur and Kadapa districts and Nellore has been entrusted to Enviro Care.
The department of Municipal Administration estimates that 53 urban local bodies across the State are generating more than 4,500 tonnes of waste on a daily basis and this could be utilised for power generation if plants were set up. Nellore Municipal Corporation has identified the land and while the lease agreement has been concluded, the site is yet to be handed over to Enviro Care.
Nellore City has an area of around 150 square kilometres in which 150-200 MT of solid waste is generated on a daily basis. This is being dumped at a transit point located at Bodigadithota which would be removed after the energy plant becomes fully operational. Each project across the State would be set up at an investment of Rs 300-400 crore and similar plants set up in Japan and China have been successful, according to officials.
As per the agreement, the State government would buy back power generated by these plants at Rs 7.50 per unit for 25 years. After expiry of the agreement, the companies will hand over the plant and the land to the civic bodies.
