Saxlund selected for Hertfordshire gasification plant

Development of a 96,000 tonnes-per-year capacity waste gasification plant in Hertfordshire is underway – with Saxlund International selected to construct fuel storage bunkers at the facility.The £60 million plant, which will be based in Hoddesdon, is a joint venture between Bouygues Energies & Services and specialised investment fund AssetGen Partners.Construction of the facility has also been part-financed by the Green Investment Bank and its partner Foresight Group, which injected £30 million into the project in March 2015 shortly after it received planning permission.Capable of producing 10MW of power for the National Grid, the facility is the ‘largest’ proposed energy from waste plant in the UK to utilise the thermal treatment technology according to Bouygues, which will design, construct and operate the facility for a period of 10 years.The facility is due to begin operations in early 2017 and will source feedstock from ‘local’ commercial and industrial waste businesses.Saxlund, which is part of the Trention AB energy and environmental technology group, has been contracted to provide a ‘Push Floor’ fuel storage system for the facility, as well as discharge bunkers.