Delhi is one of the fastest growing metros in the world, and a glitch accompanying its progress is the growing demand for energy and electricity that the city is not able to fulfill. In this situation, the city’s Indira Gandhi International Airport is having a tough time with its energy shortfalls. In order to get rid of these blackouts, the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), which is a joint venture of GMR Group, Airports Authority of India, Fraport, and Eraman Malaysia has decided to build a waste-to-electricity power plant in collaboration with GMR Energy and SELCO International.

Expected to be commissioned by 2010, the power plant to be built on a 5.7-acre land generates electricity using municipal waste, which the Municipal Corporation of Delhi would provide. The plant would need 1,300 metric tons (1,433 U.S. tons) of municipal waste a day that is a 100 metric tons more than what Delhi actually produces. Now, that is going to empty all the landfills in Delhi! The proposed plant will generate 10MW power, a part of which would be transferred to the power grid.

Besides the plant, DIAL also set up about 3000 rainwater harvesting pits to take care of the water demand and plans to build drainage systems flanking the runways and taxiways.

Via CleanTech