Bouygues to build 15MW waste-to-energy gasification plant in Belfast

Bouygues Energies & Services, a unit of Bouygues Construction, has secured a €202m contract from RiverRidge Energy and a consortium of Green Investment Bank, Equitix and P3P Partners to build a 15MW waste-to-energy gasification plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Under the deal, Bouygues will conduct engineering, procurement and construction of the plant as well as operate and maintain the facility for a period of 17 years.

The construction work is scheduled to commence in January next year and is expected to be completed by 2017.

Around 200 people are expected to be involved in the construction work and 20 local full-time jobs will be created at the plant following its completion.

The new waste-to-energy power plant is claimed to be the largest in Ireland and treat over 150,000t of local commercial and industrial waste feedstock. The plant expects to reduce 50,000t of carbon emission per annum.

Bouygues along with UK-based Biomass Power will develop a turnkey solution using a waste gasification technologyfor the plant.

Bouygues Energies & Services CEO Jean-Christophe Perraud said: "This new contract follows on the contract that we signed in February for the 10 MWe waste-to-energy gasification plant in Hoddesdon, England.

"It confirms Bouygues Energies & Services’ capacity to deliver a large, complex industrial project in the energy infrastructure sector.

"The new facility will go a long way towards helping Northern Ireland achieve its annual targets for recycling and generating energy from renewable sources."

The gasification plant, which will have a capacity of 60MW, will generate 15MW of power after being converted by two steam turbine generators.

The grid in the plant will receive net 100GWh of green electricity per year and a Bombardier Aerospace manufacturing facility located nearby will mainly use the power.

Bouygues Energies & Services is involved in developing customised projects for photovoltaic, thermal, cogeneration and waste-to-energy power generation plants and is currently running a photovoltaic plant in Thailand.

Currently, the company is building two thermal power plants in Saint-Martin and Gibraltar, and a waste-to-energy gasification plant in England.

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Image: Waste-to-energy gasification plant. photo: courtsey of Bouygues Construction