Haryana signs MoU for 2,000-tonne-a-day waste-to-energy plant in Gurugram

The four facilities in Gurugram, Faridabad, Hisar and Ambala will together process 5,000 tonnes of waste daily and generate at least 50 MW.

Haryana has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up an Integrated waste-to-energy Plant in Gurugram that will process 2,000 tonnes of waste every day and generate a minimum of 20 megawatts (MW) of energy, chief minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Saturday.

Haryana signs MoU for 2,000-tonne-a-day waste-to-energy plant in Gurugram

The proposed Gurugram facility will be the largest among four plants planned for the Gurugram, Faridabad, Hisar and Ambala clusters. Together, the facilities will process 5,000 tonnes of waste daily and generate 50 MW of energy, with all four expected to become operational by October 2028, Saini said.

The plants will be established by Oil Green Energy Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oil India Limited. The MoUs were signed in Nuh in the presence of Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Rao Inderjit Singh, Development and Panchayat Minister Krishan Lal Panwar, Education Minister Mahipal Dhanda, Urban Local Bodies Minister Vipul Goel, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shyam Singh Rana and Oil Green Energy Limited CMD Ranjit Rath, among others.

The Faridabad plant will process 1,600 tonnes of waste daily and generate at least 16 MW. The Hisar cluster, covering Hisar, Hansi, Fatehabad and Jind, will process 500 tonnes daily and generate at least 5 MW, while the Ambala cluster, covering urban local bodies in Ambala, Yamunanagar and Panchkula districts, will process 900 tonnes and generate a minimum of 9 MW.

Saini said the facilities would follow an integrated waste-processing approach. Wet waste is proposed to be used in Compressed Biogas plants, while dry waste that cannot be reused or recycled will be processed in the Waste-to-Energy plants. He said environmental safeguards and pollution-control standards would remain a priority.

The projects will receive assistance under the Centre’s Urban Challenge Fund. The Centre will bear 25% of the capital cost, another 25% will be shared by the state government and urban local bodies, while Oil Green Energy Limited will invest the remaining 50%.

Saini said the facilities would be established in accordance with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, and stressed the need for waste segregation at source.