A Clugston-CNIM joint venture has been lined up to construct a new 216000 tonnes per-year capacity energy from waste plant at Grangemouth in Falkirk, Scotland. The facility, which will be the 12th to be jointly delivered by the Anglo-French businesses, is being built on behalf of a consortium involving Brockwell Energy, Green Investment Group (GIG) and the energy from waste specialist Covanta Energy.

Expected to be completed in 2021, the Earls Gate Energy Centre (EGEC) is worth an estimated £210 million. Under the arrangements, Clugston will provide all the building and civil engineering services to support the specialist process engineering plant designed and installed by Constructions Industrielles de la Mediterranee (CNIM). Construction of the main facility is due to start in spring 2019 and it is expected to be operational by late 2021. A ‘meet the buyer’ event is being organised for later in March.

Having successfully delivered the Earls Gate project, Brockwell said its attention will move to delivering its EfW project at Westfield in Fife – which it describes as “another important Scottish asset designed to deal with capacity shortfall. Energy from waste capacity is under particular spotlight at present due to the incoming ban on biodegradable waste to landfill, due to come into effect in 2021.