Urbaser Balfour Beatty Awards Contract for Gloucestershire WtE Plant : $90m UK Waste to Energy Technology Deal for B&W Vølund

Babcock & Wilcox Vølund UBB Gloucestershire waste to energy

Danish waste to energy technology manufacturer, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund, has been awarded a contract for more than $90 million to design, manufacture and build a waste to energy power plant near Haresfield, Gloucestershire, UK.

B&W Vølund, a subsidiary of Charlotter, North Carolina based Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:BW) was awarded the contract by a joint venture of Urbaser and Balfour Beatty.

B&W said that once operational the waste to energy plant will treat municipal and commercial and industrial waste and generate 14.5 MW of electricity, enough to power the equivalent of 25,000 homes.

Under the terms of the deal B&W Vølund’s scope includes the plant’s combustion system and air-cooled DynaGrate®, fuel handling equipment, steam boiler island, steam turbine-generator, water treatment system, piping, valves and air systems, burners and other plant equipment.

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