SITA subsidiary to invest $12 million into facility.
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The Paris-based waste and recycling firm Suez Environnement, through its SITA subsidiary, has received the contract to operate the Ametyst anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Montepellier, France. The contract is valued at €150 million (US$186.46 million) over the next ten years.
SITA has operated the facility since 2008. The facility is expected to benefit from a €10 million ($12 million) investment program funded by SITA, which will increase the plant’s electricity and heat production by around 50 percent.
Scrap material collected at the plant with high caloric value such as plastic will be converted into solid recovered fuel (SRF) and used to power cement works.
Under the new contract, SITA also will recover local biowaste and household waste at the AD plant in order to produce 33,500 metric tons of compost per year.
To assist in the project, SITA will rely on the expertise and the logistical network of Terralys, a subsidiary of Suez, which specializes in organic waste recovery. Terralys also will sell and distribute the compost.
Suez expects that the development of the new business, in combination with improved energy recovery of waste, will reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill, with more than 51 percent of local waste transformed into new resources.
As a stakeholder in the energy transition, in 2013, SITA France produced more than 2 million megawatt hours (MWh) of heat and more than 1.5 million MWh of electricity.
