Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant (LSEP), a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and FCC Environment, announced the appointment on 25 January.
The appointment of US construction company Black & Veatch comes after the previous contractor, French-owned CNIM, lost the deal after it was declared insolvent and entered administration in January 2022.
LSEP has also appointed Ohio-based “clean energy technology specialist” Babcock & Wilcox to support the delivery of the power train, boiler and turbine, “which is the heart of the energy generation and environmental performance of the plant.”
LSEP aims to have the £480 million facility operational in 2025, but will for now have to keep to the 600,000 tonne capacity after recently having an application to increase it to 720,000 tonnes rejected by the government (see letsrecycle.com story).
‘Positive’
A spokesperson from LSEP said: “This is a really positive step forward for the LSEP, which will support in levelling up the local economy by creating up to 600 jobs during the construction period and around 50 high quality full-time operational jobs.
“Appointing the Black & Veatch and Babcock and Wilcox as our lead contracting partners is a key milestone on our journey to manage the delivery of the LSEP plant, and provides the certainty that will help us to unlock the significant investment, job creation and energy security benefits of the project.”
Plant
LSEP will develop the Lostock plant in accordance with the original planning consent secured by Tata Chemicals Europe in 2012 and will replace the old coal-fired power station previously based on the site.
We are delighted to lead this project and bring it to successful delivery
– Youssef Merjane, Black & Veatch’s senior vice president and managing director
LSEP acquired the project in 2017. CIP and FCC Environment announced that £480 million in funding had been secured to construct the plant in March 2019 and said it was due to be operational in the second quarter of 2023 (see letsrecycle.com story). It is now scheduled for 2025.
The plant will generate enough power for 125,000 homes, LSEP said. The company added that the facility will also reduce carbon emissions by 190,912 tonnes when compared with the alternatives of sending the same quantity of waste to landfill.
Youssef Merjane, Black & Veatch’s senior vice president and managing director, said: “Black & Veatch will deploy its global and national experience and proven delivery in large-scale energy from waste projects to provide LSEP with execution certainty on Lostock.
“Our UK team’s expertise in EPCM delivery offers the most flexibility to meet LSEP requirements on this complex project. We are delighted to lead this project and bring it to successful delivery.”
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