Under the contract, valued more than $90m, Babcock & Wilcox subsidiary will design, manufacture and build the 14.5MW facility which can process municipal and commercial and industrial waste to generate electricity.

Planned to be commissioned in 2019, the facility is expected to generate clean electricity required to power 25,000 homes.

The contract scope includes the plant’s combustion system and air-cooled DynaGrate, fuel handling equipment and steam boiler island.

The firm will also be responsible for steam turbine-generator, water treatment system, piping, valves and air systems, burners and other plant equipment.

B&W Global Power Division senior vice-president Paul Scavuzzo said: "B&W has installed more than 500 waste-to-energy and biomass units around the world."

The firm has already started engineering work on the plant.

In 2015, B&W and its joint venture partner Lagan Construction secured a contract from Glennmont Partners to design and build the 40MW Teesside renewable energy plant near Middlesbrough, England, for Port Clarence Energy.

A separate contract was awarded to B&W Vølund to provide operations and maintenance services for the waste wood fired biomass power plant.

B&W will build and operate the plant for 15 years.