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Cement plants to produce eco-friendly power [1]

Much maligned for causing pollution, cement plants in the state will soon generate environment-friendly power from waste heat which will not only enable them to earn carbon credits, but also reduce emissions.

The first such power plant is being set up by the ACC Cement manufacturing unit at Barmana which produces 45 lakh tonnes of cement and clinker annually.

Publication Date: 
14/09/2009
Tribune (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Environment [3], Climate Mitigation [4], Energy [5], Turbines [6], Cement Industry [7], Himachal Pradesh [8]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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