Huge new biomass plant coming to Teesside

Spanish energy and environmental technology group Abengoa and Toshiba Corporation have won the contract to build the world’s largest new biomass plant.

The £425m project near Middlesbrough will have a capacity of 299MW of electricity and steam, both for self-sufficiency and to be exported to nearby industry and users, the equivalent of at least 600,000 households in the UK.

Seville-based Abengoa will be responsible for carrying out the engineering, design and construction of the plant for the client MGT Teesside. This project will use wood pellets and chips from certified sustainable forestry resources from the United States and Europe as fuel, and will be audited to ensure compliance with the strict criteria established by the UK's incentives for renewable energy.

Abengoa has now been awarded the construction of two power and steam biomass plants in less than a year, the other being a 215MW plant in Ghent, Belgium The Ghent project was previously the largest power and steam from biomass plant in the world to have awarded a construction contract. These two awards strengthen Abengoa's capacity to develop complex projects, as well as its commitment to sustainable development.