Dutch construction and engineering company Ballast Nedam is to be part of a consortium that will build a new biomass power plant in the port of Delfzijl in the Netherlands later this year.
Ballast Nedam will join forces with Germany’s Areva Renewables and with Finland’s Metso Power to build the 49 megawatt plant, which will produce energy from recycled waste wood chips—enough to meet the needs of 120,000 households.
The plant will be located alongside the maritime channel at Delfzijl and will begin operations in the summer of 2013.
Ballast Nedam’s role in the project is to supervise the licensing process and the design & construction of the project's civil engineering and structural components.
The contract has a value of approximately €48 million for the Dutch company.
There are currently four wood-burning power plants in the Netherlands—mostly linked to waste incinerators—generating about 90 megawatts of energy.
Ballast Nedam said the project will support its strategy of focusing on integrated projects and on niche markets such as industrial construction, hospitals, offshore wind turbines, secondary raw materials and alternative fuels.
Headquartered in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, Ballast Nedamoperates mainly in the Netherlands on integrated and other projects for companies, public authorities and housing consumers, in the fields of mobility, housing, employment, leisure and energy.
