Reform Energy Chooses Tech Partner for Fleetwood Plant

Manchester, U.K.-based Reform Energy has formed a joint venture with MW Power Oy of Finland to use its technology on its proposed energy recovery power plant on the Fylde coast in the United Kingdom.

The plant will generate up to 10 megawatts of electricity and up to 20 megawatts of heat from around 75,000 metric tons of commercial waste processed per year. The fuel feedstock will be sourced from an existing waste transfer station on the same site, using local commercial waste collection services. The fuel will be primarily made up of materials, which would otherwise go to landfill, after the extraction of recyclable elements from the waste stream.
MW Power Oy is a joint venture between Metso and Wärtsilä.

In a separate deal, Reform Energy has negotiated an option to purchase the Fleetwood site from Wyre Waste Recycling, which was its initial joint venture partner in the original planning application for the development.

Wyre Waste Recycling will continue to operate the waste handling facility and will provide the fuel waste stream for the plant.

The Fleetwood plant will employ MW Power's bubbling fluidized bed combustion technology that delivers electricity and heat output combined with flue gas cleaning systems.

The plant was granted planning permission by Lancashire County (U.K.) Council in December 2011 and the initial civil engineering work is set to begin on site by summer 2012. Construction and commissioning of the plant is scheduled to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2014.