Waste to biogas plant to start operations by Nov
Nagpur: Netherlands-based
Sustainable Business Development
(SusBDe) assured chief minister Devendra Fadnavis that its long-pending waste-to-biogas plant at Bhandewadi will begin producing
compressed biogas
from November 15, 2025.
The assurance was given during the CM's visit to the site on Saturday evening, where he reviewed the delayed project and reiterated the final deadline for full commissioning as November 30.
Ahead of the visit, Nagpur municipal commissioner Abhijeet Chaudhari convened a review meeting with SusBDe and key civic officials. The ambitious project aims to scientifically process Nagpur's municipal solid waste and convert it into compressed biogas (CBG).
However, the initiative missed multiple deadlines since its original commissioning target of November 2024. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) extended the deadline first to March 2025, and then to November 2025, citing delays in site development and equipment procurement.
Fadnavis was accompanied by east Nagpur MLA Krishna Khopde, former corporator Narendra Borkar, commissioner Chaudhari, additional municipal commissioner Vasumana Pant, and superintending engineer (public health engineering) Shweta Banerjee, SusBDe representatives Vrinda Thakur, Sanjay Gadre, Vinod Tandon among others were present.
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Currently, SusBDe is handling only 300 metric tonnes (MT) of waste per day using a temporary 9-acre setup, although the plant is designed to process significantly higher volumes. Operations are running in three shifts round-the-clock, yet civic officials remain dissatisfied with the pace of work. In response to earlier concerns raised by the municipal commissioner, SusBDe has now committed to ramping up operations to 800 MT per day starting June 2025, adding 500 MT of fresh waste to its daily intake.
During the review, SusBDe representatives assured Fadnavis that civil construction would continue uninterrupted during the upcoming monsoon season, MLA Khopde told TOI.
To prevent rain-related disruptions, the company is currently developing internal access roads within the 30-acre plot to ensure smooth logistics despite muddy site conditions. "Furthermore, the company announced that it is targeting November 15 to begin full-fledged
biogas production
from waste, ahead of the official November-end deadline," the east Nagpur MLA said.
This timeline is contingent on the arrival and installation of key machinery from Europe, which is expected by August, followed by a three-month testing and commissioning phase.
The biogas plant is being developed in partnership with Waste to Technology (WTT) and is projected to generate 27 million cubic metres of compressed biogas annually using both legacy and fresh municipal waste.
SusBDe is setting up the project at its own expense without charging any tipping fee from the NMC. The project will process municipal waste to produce by-products such as biogas, organic compost, and RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel), and the rights to sell these by-products have been granted to it. This is a prestigious and ambitious project for Nagpur and is the only one of its kind in India based on Dry Fermentation Technology.
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