Germany-headed combustion technology provider Standardkessel Baumgarte GmbH (SBG), a subsidiary of Japan-headed JFE Engineering Corporation has announced the handing over of an Energy-from-Waste (EfW) combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Scotland to the customer.
Having successfully completed all commissioning tests in January 2022, the new MVV Environment Baldovie Ltd (MEB) EfW combined heat and power (CHP) facility in Dundee has now started full operations and generating energy.
With the Provisional Acceptance Certificate (PAC), the MEB now also assumes responsibility for the plant and its operation.
An essential part of the takeover was the receipt of the so-called Acceptance of Completion Certificate for the Building Warrant from Dundee City Council, which certifies that the construction has been completed properly and in accordance with Scottish standards and rules.
Slight delay due to COVID
In December 2017, MEB, a subsidiary of the Germany-headed energy company MVV Energie AG (MVV), commissioned SBG as the general contractor for the turnkey delivery, construction, and commissioning of the plant.
Located in the Baldovie industrial estate, the EfW CHP facility had been under construction for the last four years after suffering slight delays due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The new EfW CHP facility will process approximately 110 000 tonnes of residual municipal, commercial, and industrial waste as fuel for the generation of useful energy.
Around 70 percent of the capacity, will be used to treat the residual waste for Dundee City and Angus Councils, thereby providing a more environmentally sustainable waste treatment solution for the Councils by minimizing the amount of waste going to landfills.
The thermal treatment process will generate approximately 40 MWth steam which will be converted up to 10 MWe of electricity.
The heat and electricity generated will be available for space heating and future industrial processes in the new Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc. The remaining electricity will be fed into the National Grid.
Parallel operations
The plant is built next to two existing fluidized bed (FB) boilers and will replace them eventually in the long term. In November 2020, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) approved MEB’s application to vary the environmental permit to allow parallel operation of the existing facility and the new EfW CHP facility.
Collectively, these two facilities have created additional jobs with a team on site now numbering almost 60, and have a combined capacity of processing approximately 200 000 tonnes of residual waste per annum.
As well as playing a crucial role in environmental sustainability and the circular economy, MEB’s facilities assist Dundee City and Angus Councils in complying with the upcoming landfill ban for residual waste and the Scottish Governments’ target of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2045 or sooner.
We at MEB are extremely proud to see our newest facility in the UK now up and running alongside the existing facility which we have been running since 2017. As well as protecting and creating jobs, we are able to help Dundee and Angus divert waste away from landfills and supply useful energy to the local area, commented Paul Carey, Managing Director of MEB.
