The bioenergy plant will annually convert 300,000 tons of wood chips from recycled waste wood into green electricity that equals the electricity consumption of about 120,000 households.
The bioenergy plant, Eneco Bio Golden Raand, is scheduled to be operational in 2013.
Eneco has awarded the contract for the construction of the plant to the AMB consortium consisting of AREVA Renewables, Ballast Nedam Infra bv and Metso Power Oy.
The facility will use fluidised bed combustion technology, which uses a hot sand bed to ensure optimal combustion of the biomass.
The wood that is converted to electricity in the plant will arrive by ship, train and truck from the Netherlands and surrounding countries.
The wood-burning plant will lead to a reduction of 250,000 tons of CO2 emissions a year compared with electricity generated in a conventional plant.
