Nearly 700 tonnes of garbage reaches Ellikutta Village in Mehbubnagar, Hyderabad. The concept of generating electricity from waste is not something new or intriguing to scientists. G.V Ramakrishna, hailing from Hyderabad, is the person who made it possible on a practical scale. He established CELCO International in 2003 November which was his dream project for the past ten years. It has the unique distinction of being the lone organization in the whole of India to implement this project.

Hyderabad Municipal Corporation granted permission for directing 700 tonnes of garbage to CELCO international for 30 years from 2003 onwards, which in itself is a great milestone for the company.

Within the first two years, CELCO produced 6 crore units of electricity from 4 lakh tonnes of garbage.

Generally, water cooled condensers are used in the process of generating electricity. Here Mr. Ramakrishna came up with an innovative alternative. Air cooled condensers for the first time was used instead. Ramakrishna is happy to say that because of this they were able to save an estimated 30,000 liters of water per hour.

Apart from this, they are using great technology to produce electricity. For this, CELCO has been awarded in 2005 through the hands of the then president Dr. Abdul Kalam. They are making use of by-products by selling them to other companies.

APTRANSCO has accepted a proposal to buy the generated electricity at a rate of 3.4/ unit from CELCO.

Their goal at present is to increase their capacity for generating power from 6.6 MW to 7.5 MW. At present, Shadnagar substation is receiving electricity/power from CELCO only! It helped in preventing power cuts and low voltage, voltage drops in the Shadnagar area.

  • Extracting Cement from wastages is their future project which it deals in collaboration with Grasim Industries in Jaipur.
  • They received invitation from Ahmadabad Municipal Corporation in Gujarat to start a 8 MW power generation unit.
  • They agreed to start a 6 MW power generation unit in Hubli, Karnataka.

All of this and more was possible thanks to the ingenuity of the man who started it all, the entrepreneur Mr. G.V Ramakrishna!

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