France-headed engineering company Constructions Industrielles de la Méditerranée S.A. (CNIM) has announced that it has been selected by US-headed waste-to-energy (WtE) project developer and operator Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., for the turnkey design and construction of the 19 MWe (gross) Wheelabrator Parc Adfer facility, in Flintshire, North Wales – its fourth energy-from-waste (EfW) facility in the United Kingdom (UK).
In 2014, Wheelabrator Technologies was selected as the preferred bidder to build and operate the facility over the next 25 years as a public-private partnership (PPP), with support from the Welsh Government to serve the five local authorities that make up the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Project (NWRWTP) – Conwy County Borough Council, Denbighshire County Council, Flintshire County Council, Gwynedd Council and the Isle of Anglesey County Council.
In December 2016, Wheelabrator achieved financial close on the project
The Wheelabrator Parc Adfer energy recovery facility will be built on a former steelworks site at the Deeside Industrial Park. It has been named Parc Adfer to reflect how it will help North Wales recover energy from its non-recyclable waste (Adfer meaning to ‘recover’ or ‘restore’ in Welsh).
The construction phase is expected to result in hundreds of additional jobs and create around 35 new, full-time operational roles at the facility when plant operations commence in 2019.
This new infrastructure project will provide significant local and county-wide benefits. The positive economic impact to the local area during construction and operations is expected to exceed multi-million pounds given facilities like this have a number of major and routine maintenance projects each year requiring specialised support from local businesses and contractors
