Chapter 00 — Industry Use Case
Municipalities & Urban Local Bodies. Turn a waste liability into a hydrogen asset.
Cities are running out of compliant landfill and facing tightening solid-waste mandates. Ardana gives urban local bodies a way to divert mixed MSW into green hydrogen, on captive municipal land, with contracted offtake and a compounding carbon-credit stream.
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India plant target
989T
H₂ / yr · Delhi 10 TPD
87%
EBITDA · Delhi unit
<1 yr
Payback · Delhi unit
Delhi 10 TPD figures from the Ardana Capital project catalog.
The Challenge Today
- Landfill capacity closing; siting new cells is politically impossible.
- Methane and leachate liabilities under mounting regulatory scrutiny.
- Solid-waste mandates (e.g. India SWM Rules 2026) demand new outlets.
- Incineration creates dioxin/furan (POPs) exposure and public opposition.
How Ardana Fits
- Accepts mixed, unsorted MSW — no citizen-segregation dependency.
- Captive municipal feedstock underwrites a bankable long-term supply.
- Inert vitrified slag replaces landfilling of residues.
- Carbon-credit revenue shares back to the municipal balance sheet.
Chapter 01 — Relevant Feedstocks