Under the contract, the companies will engineer, design and install the biomass power plant as well as supply the main equipment and will carry out testing before commissioning the plant, which is scheduled for completion by mid-2015.
To be built around 200km north of Manila, the plant, first Areva biomass project in the Philippines, will use rice husk as fuel and will generate enough electricity to power around 10,000 households annually.
AREVA Renewables CEO Louis-Francois Durret said that the latest contract will strengthen its position in Southeast Asian, a market where it intends to become a reference biomass power plant provider.
