Babcock & Wilcox to build 14.5MW waste-to-energy power plant in UK

Denmark-based Babcock & Wilcox Vølund has won a $90m contract from a joint venture of Urbaser and Balfour Beatty to build a waste-to-energy power generating facility near Haresfield in Gloucestershire, UK.

As part of the deal, Babcock & Wilcox will design, manufacture and build the 14.5MW facility, which can process municipal and commercial and industrial waste to generate electricity.

Scheduled to be commissioned in 2019, the new facility is expected to generate clean electricity required to power 25,000 homes.

The firm will also be responsible for the plant's combustion system and air-cooled DynaGrate, fuel handling equipment and steam boiler island.

It will also manufacture and install steam turbine-generator, water treatment system, piping, valves and air systems, burners and other plant equipment at the site.

B&W Global Power Division senior vice-president Paul Scavuzzo said: "B&W has installed more than 500 waste-to-energy and biomass units around the world."

The company has already started engineering work on the plant.

The firm had secured two contracts from Glennmont Partners totalling more than $190m for the design and build, as well as for operation and maintenance of the 40MW Teesside renewable energy plant in the UK.

The waste wood fired biomass power plant is being built for Port Clarence Energy, for which construction works are expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2018.