Plant will generate more than 60MW of energy for residents and businesses and process around 600,000 tonnes of waste annually.
Babcock & Wilcox has been awarded a contract by Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant to support delivery of the power train for a waste-to-energy plant near Manchester in the UK.
The contract, valued at approximately $65 million, will see the B&W Environmental and B&W Renewable arms of B&W provide engineering services and advanced technologies for the plant, including flue gas treatment technologies, air-cooled condensers and boiler cleaning equipment.
The Lostock plant will use residual waste to generate 60MW+ of energy for residents and businesses. Additionally, the waste-to-energy plant will process around 600,000 tonnes of waste annually.
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A spokesperson for Lostock said in a statement: “This appointment is a key milestone on our journey to manage the delivery of the plant and provides the certainty that will help us to unlock the significant investment, job creation and energy security benefits of the project.”
B&W Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morgan said waste-to-energy “is also a powerful solution for eliminating emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from landfills, using waste that would otherwise decompose and create methane to produce clean, renewable power”.
Black & Veatch was selected as the engineering, procurement and construction management contractor to oversee the delivery of the plant, which is expected to be operational by 2025.
The Lostock waste-to-energy plant is being built on the site of a decommissioned coal-fired power plant and is scheduled to begin commercial operation in late 2025.
Waste-to-energy market growth
Globally, the waste-to-energy market is projected to grow from $33.28 billion in 2022 to $44.62 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 4.3% in forecast period, 2022-2029.
Market growth is being spurred by innovation in green technologies and the digitalisation of waste management processes.
Furthermore, more waste is being generated through urbanisation and industrialisation thereby highlighting the need for effective waste-to-energy facilities as part of a sustainable eco-system.
