New Delhi: The Sheila Dikshit government will have none of the protests and Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh's green concerns and stands firm on commissioning the waste-to-energy projects in Timarpur-Okhla and Ghazipur. The residents and ragpickers were up in arms against the projects, while the Union minister had requested the Delhi government to reconsider the location of these plants. But, the Sheila Dikshit government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court just a couple of days after Ramesh visited the project site at Okhla and said: "The Timarpur-Okhla project would utilise 2,050 tonnes per day of municipal waste to generate over 16 MW of green electricity and is expected to be complete by this year." The affidavit was filed by counsel Wasim A Qadri before a Bench headed by Justice D K Jain, which was hearing amicus curiae Ranjit Kumar about the looming power shortage in the capital during the coming summer days. The government said: "The Ghazipur project would also process 1,300 tonnes per day of municipal waste generated in the Trans-Yamuna area to produce 12 MW of green electricity and is expected to be completed by 2012." "A pilot plant of 500 kilograms per day based on Bhabha Atomic Research Centre technology has been set up at Delhi Secretariat for conversion of kitchen waste to bio-gas as a suitable replacement of LPG," it said. The Dikshit government also told the SC that the cabinet had approved grant of 33% capital subsidy for installation of Decentralised Waste Treatment Plants for bio-gas production. On energy conservation attempts, it said the Delhi Traffic Police would use solar energy by the end of the next year for all 730 traffic signals and 426 traffic blinkers functioning in the capital. Waste pickers along with environmentalists and civil society groups had protested against the setting up of waste-to-energy plants in the city. They had said the incinerator plants at Okhla, Timarpur and Ghazipur were being built with complete disregard to the public health concerns of residents. On March 31, Ramesh had visited the under-construction waste-to-energy plant in Okhla along with Central Pollution Control Board chairman S P Gautam. Ramesh had earlier written a letter to chief minister Shiela Dikshit to reconsider the location of the Timarpur-Okhla wasteto-energy plant.