Waste to energy or waste of energy?
Waste to energy or waste of energy?
ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Dec 21, 2020, 06:00 IST
Residents and environmentalists claim
waste segregation
Early this month, the state government laid the foundation stone for a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant at Bidadi, which is being built by the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL). Of the remaining four such plants, one project proposed near
Kannahalli landfill with the capacity to process 1,000 tonnes per day is expected to take off anytime soon. Other proposals are currently under examination at different departments.
The model of agreement between the government and different private players appear to be, more or less, the same. While the company makes an initial investment of about Rs 250 crore for setting up infrastructure, the government provides free land, about 35 per cent of the project cost in the form of subsidy and tipping fee (per tonne basis) to process the waste ti