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WtE plant to process refuse derived fuel, produce power
Lucknow: A waste-to-energy (WtE) plant will be set up at Shivri by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation soon. The plant will process refuse derived fuel (RDF) made from non-recyclable plastics, paper, cardboard and other combustible inorganic materials collected from the city and nearby municipalities and nagar panchayats.
By processing RDF locally, the project is expected to cut down significantly high logistic cost of transporting waste to cement factories about 500 km away.
The plant is part of city's plan to set up a 15 MW RDF-to-electricity unit aimed at managing waste and generating power from it. It will use 1,000–1,200 metric tonnes of RDF produced daily in Lucknow, which is transported to other locations.
The project, estimated to cost Rs 450 crore, will be developed under a public-private partnership (PPP) model using the Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) structure.
Funding will be divided among the private partner (50%), the state or urban local body (25%), and the central govt (25%), with Viability Gap Funding (VGF) proposed.
Additional municipal commissioner Arvind Rao said the plant will handle waste and produce electricity. Mayor Sushma Kharakwal said the project aligned with goals related to waste and energy in urban and rural regions. "The plant is expected to be completed in over two years on 20–25 acres of land and will need 3 million litres water per day.
It will create jobs, produce revenue through power sales and support carbon credit activities," she said.
The facility will run on RDF with systems like stoker grate or fluidized bed boilers, high-pressure boilers, and turbines. Electricity produced will be sold to state's power utility under power purchase agreement.
The plant has bag filters, scrubbers, and monitoring equipment for emission control to meet norms of Central and UP Pollution Control Boards. Residual ash may be reused in construction and cement-related work.
