Amec Foster Wheeler has won a renewables deal for the Tees Renewable Energy Plant in Teeside, UK.
The firm will design and supply a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generator for the site. Amec was also a long term service agreement for boiler maintenance.
Tomas Harju-Jeanty, president, Energia Group, Global Power Group at Amec Foster Wheeler said: “We are very pleased to be a part of this state of the art renewable power plant which will be the world’s largest new build dedicated biomass plant. This is further recognition of Amec Foster Wheeler’s leadership in CFB technologies for environmentally sound renewable generation.”
Amec Foster Wheeler will design and supply the 299 MWe (gross) unit of the baseload CFB power plant including auxiliary equipment and onsite technical advisory services for construction and supervisory services for commissioning.
Once it reaches its full 299-MW capacity in 2020, the boiler will be the world’s largest CFB boiler utilising only biomass as fuel.
Ben Elsworth, chief executive of MGT Power added: “We are very pleased to have Amec Foster Wheeler in this project as the boiler plant supplier with their extensive experience of large scale biomass plants.”
The Tees REP is a 299MW biomass power station that will burn wood chip and pellet to generate electricity for the equivalent of 600,000 homes, 24 hours a day. The woodchip will be imported by ship from sustainable and verifiable forestry sources primarily from America and Europe, and this stock will be continually replenished as it is used.
It will save about 1.2million tonnes of CO2 per year.
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