Bouygues Energies & Services to Build & Operate Plant : €202 Contract for 15MW Waste to Energy Gasification Plant in Northern Ireland
A contract worth more than €202 million for the turnkey delivery of a 15 MW waste to energy gasification plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been awarded to Bouygues Energies & Services, a subsidiary of Paris headquartered construction firm, Bouygues Construction.
The company explained that the contract was awarded by the Full Circle Generation investment fund, which consists of the developer RiverRidge Energy and a consortium of investors made up of Green Investment Bank, Equitix and P3P Partners.
Under the terms of the deal Bouygues will be responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of the 15 MWe facility, and will then carry out operation and maintenance for 17 years.
The construction firm added that the waste gasification plant will have a capacity of 60 MWt. However, once converted converted into electricity by two steam turbine generators, it will generate 15 MWe of power. Net annual green electricity exported to the grid will be 100 GWh.
A neighbouring Bombardier Aerospace manufacturing plant will be the principal user.
Once operational the waste to energy facility will treat more than 150,000 tonnes of feedstock derived from local commercial and industrial waste and will enable Northern Ireland to cut 50,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
Bouygues Energies & Services will provide a turnkey solution using a waste gasification technology developed in conjunction with Stafford, UK based Biomass Power Ltd, which provides a combination of financial investment and gasification steam cycle technology.
The company said that construction work, which will involve 200 people at peak periods, will begin in January 2016, with handover scheduled for late 2017. It added that the operation and maintenance contract will subsequently lead to the creation of 20 local full-time jobs.
“This new contract follows on the contract that we signed in February for the 10 MWe waste to energy gasification plant in Hoddesdon, England,” commented Jean-Christophe Perraud, CEO of Bouygues Energies & Services.
“The new facility will go a long way towards helping Northern Ireland achieve its annual targets for recycling and generating energy from renewable sources,” he added.
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