10 / 94
FCC Environment, FCC’s subsidiary in the
United Kingdom and the Buckinghamshire
City Council, commissioned the Great-
moor EfW plant situated in Aylesbury Dis-
trict in the central part of the Island. Awar-
ded in 2013, the 30-year contract is worth
1.095 million Euros (920.4 million pounds).
The project was funded with 250 million
euros (209.7 million pounds). This sum
also includes the construction of two was-
te transfer facilities (High Heavens and
Amersham) and a new access road. The
facility is fully in operations, has 46 full-time
workers and generates up to 2.3 million
pounds per year for the local economy
of the Aylesbury Vale (new jobs and con-
tracts with local suppliers).
Designed and built by the Japanese com-
pany Hitachi Zosen IINOVA (HZI), Buc-
kingham (U.K.) the EfW plant is FCC’s
eighth plant in operations. There is also
FCC inaugurates
the energy-from-waste plant (EfW)
in Buckinghamshire (U.K.)
another plant under construction. The
funds for the project were financed by
FCC during the construction phase and
were mostly repaid by the client after the
plant was commissioned.
From waste to energy
The facility will treat up to 300,000 ton of
waste per year and will generate 22 me-
gawatts of electricity; the equivalent to
the electricity needs required to power up
to 36,000 homes and will be the primary
disposal point for all of Buckinghamshire’s
local waste. Aylesbury Vale District and
some of the county’s Household Was-
te Centres will deliver waste directly to
the facility with the three southern dis-
trict councils (South Bucks, Chiltern y
Wycombe) and the rest of the HWRCs
will use the waste transfer station at High
Heavens, near Wycombe. The waste
transfer station will be used to bulk waste
for its subsequent transport by truck to
the new EfW facility.
The Company’s eighth
facility of this type in
operations plus another
one under construction
Business