The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has enlisted a private company, TheGreenBillions Limited (TGBL), to manage and use Pune’s municipal waste of 350 metric tonnes per day (MTPD) for generating hydrogen for a period of 30 years.
This is the first plant in the nation to extract clean hydrogen from biomass and municipal solid waste. According to local officials, the aforementioned company specialises in consulting, administering, and implementing sustainable initiatives and is in discussions to establish similar plants in the future with other state municipalities.
As per PMC officials, Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL), a central public sector enterprise, will provide project management consulting and variate Pune waste to Energy Private Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TGBL, to implement the project of converting Pune’s municipal non-recyclable waste into hydrogen.
