First-ever garbage -baseed power plant in Tamil Nadu

  • 10/11/1999

The country's first -ever power plant using solid waste as fuel will go on stream within the next few months with the commissioning of the Rs 150 crore 15-mw project at suburban Perugudi at Chennai. Work on the project, undertaken by Australia-based Energy Development Ltd (EDL), was progressing on schedule and the plant would be commissioned in the next few months, sources in Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) have said.