Italian waste-to-energy plant to be expanded

Oct. 28, 2005
Lomellina Energia awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction contract to a unit of Foster Wheeler Ltd. for a second processing line at a waste-to-energy plant at Parona, Italy.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 28 -- Lomellina Energia awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction contract to a unit of Foster Wheeler Ltd. for a second processing line at a waste-to-energy plant at Parona, Italy.

Foster Wheeler Italiana SPA owns 39% of Lomellina Energia. The contract value exceeds $130 million. Commercial operation of the expansion is scheduled for September 2007.

The original plant, which started commercial operation in 2000, was designed and built by Foster Wheeler, which continues to operate it along with partners.

The existing plant processes 200,000 tons/year of municipal solid waste (MSW), converting 60% of the MSW into refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which is combusted to generate 15 Mw of power.

The expansion will allow the plant to process an additional 180,000 tons/year of RDF and produce an additional 19 Mw, which will be sold to the Italian national grid.