Bouyges Energies & Services has been awarded by the Full Circle Generation investment fund a €202m contract to build a 15MWe waste-to-energy gasification plant in Northern Ireland.
Bouyges will be responsible for engineering, procurement and construction of the Belfast facility and will also perform operations and maintenance for 17 years.
The gasification plant will have capacity of 60MWt, which, when converted by two steam turbines, will generate the 15MWe. A manufacturing plant owned by Bombardier Aerospace will be the principal beneficiary.
Construction is scheduled to start in January, with handover set for late 2017. It will generate jobs for 200 people at peak periods.
The O&M work will create 20 full time roles.
The Full Circle Generation fund consists of the developer RiverRidge Energy and a consortium of investors made up of Green Investment Bank, Equitix and P3P Partners
Bouyges Energies & Services chief executive officer Jean-Christophe Perraud said: “This new contract follows on the contract that we signed in February for the 10MWe waste-to-energy gasification plant in Hoddesdon, England.
“The new facility will go a long way towards helping Northern Ireland achieve its annual targets for recycling and generating energy from renewable sources.”
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