MVV Environment Medworth, a subsidiary of MVV Environment, and Kanadevia Inova have signed the Notice to Proceed for the facility following the conclusion of an engineering, procurement and construction contract earlier this year.
The development represents a total investment of around £500 million and is expected to take approximately three years to complete.
Main construction on Medworth EfW CHP begins
With the project now in its execution phase, main construction activity will begin, including the establishment of the temporary construction compound, site clearance and preparation for piling.
Initial construction on the site began in February 2025.
Paul Carey, Managing Director at MVV, said: “Following some preliminary enabling activities over the last few months, we are now starting the main construction works for our Medworth energy from waste combined heat and power facility.”
Once operational, the facility is expected to be able to process up to 625,000 tonnes of waste each year, generating around 50 megawatts of electricity.
In addition, it aims to be capable of providing up to 49MWth of heat to nearby industrial customers.
Fabio Dinale, Executive VP of Business Development at Kanadevia Inova, added: “We are proud to be entering the construction phase alongside MVV.
“Our teams are ready to deliver this state-of-the-art facility, which will not only generate reliable baseload energy to power homes and businesses, but it will also make a vital long-term contribution to sustainable waste management in the region.”
Site delayed by EfW ban
MVV announced that it had received development consent for the Medworth EfW Combined Heat and Power (CHP) project in February 2024.
The permit for the Medworth site was originally approved on 20 February, then repealed and reinstated on 27 February.
However, an EfW ban meant that its Environmental Permit was delayed until May 2024 when the ban ended.
The ban, made under regulation 62 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, was a response to growing environmental concerns and calls for a reassessment of the country’s waste management strategies.
It applied to applications received on or before 4 April and was in place until 24 May.
In October 2024, MVV announced that it had acquired a nine-acre orchard in Wisbech ahead of the construction of the plant.
Kanadevia Inova’s UK projects
The Medworth CHP facility will be the 22nd UK project delivered by Kanadevia Inova and is also the first scheme the firm has undertaken for MVV Environment.
Kanadevia Inova recently completed construction of Enfinium’s £500 million Skelton Grange facility in Leeds, which entered operations in September 2025.
The company is also the principal engineering, procurement and construction contractor for Encyclis’s Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) in Walsall, which entered full construction this year.
Subscribe for free