Acciona to render EPC services to 36 MW waste-to-energy project in Australia

ACCIONA’s Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract with the project developer, Macquarie Capital and Phoenix Energy Joint Venture, includes a 36-month construction period starting in October 2018. During the construction phase, more than 800 jobs will be created. The operation and maintenance phase will create around 60 new permanent positions.

The project involves the development of a thermal waste-to-energy facility in Kwinana, Western Australia.

The power plant will divert 400,000 tonnes of household, commercial, and industrial waste from landfill each year which represents a quarter of Perth’s post-recycling rubbish. It will use the residual waste to generate energy, recover and recycle metals, and re-use the remaining ash residue as construction materials.

The scheme will result in an overall reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of more than 400,000 tonnes per year, the equivalent of taking 85,000 cars off the road.  The facility will also export 36 MW of electricity to the local grid per year, sufficient to power more than 50,000 households.

ACCIONA’s consortium to design, build, operate and maintain the facility includes operations and maintenance partner Veolia.