New Scottish Waste-to-Energy plant will provide heat and electricity for next-gen Industrial Park

March 17, 2022
The waste-to-energy power generation facility has a capacity of 39.9 MW in thermal output and about 49 metric tons of steam per hour. It will process residential, commercial and industrial waste from the region

German-based Standardkessel Baumgarte (SBG) has completed and handed over control of a new waste-to-energy power plant to provide heat and electricity for a fledgling industrial park around Dundee, Scotland.

The project took more than four years due to complications such as the COVID-19 pandemic and other delays. MVV Environment Baldovie Ltd., a subsidiary of the Mannheim-based energy company MVV, commissioned SBG as general contractor in December 2017 with the turnkey delivery, construction and commissioning of the system.

The waste-to-energy power generation facility has a capacity of 39.9 MW in thermal output and about 49 metric tons of steam per hour. It will process residential, commercial and industrial waste from the region, to be utilized as feedstock for combined heat and power generation.

The heat and electricity eventually can be used for the benefit of the new Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc. The industrial park for prospective clean energy and new technologies was created as a joint venture with local leaders and tire company Michelin, after one of its longtime manufacturing plants was closed in Dundee.

Additional electricity will be connected into the Scottish national grid.

The power plant was built next to existing  fluidized bed boiler systems which will be utilized. The operators expect to replace that for cleaner options in the future.

Waste to energy plants do have emissions, but environmental supporters say that landfills emit dangerous amounts of methane, which is considered multiple times a worse greenhouse gas polluter than carbon.

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