The contract was signed this Friday, September 27: the Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche incineration plant will be demolished and replaced a few meters away by a new waste treatment plant. The project led by Véolia must supply energy to 9,000 homes.
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Nearly 80,000 tonnes of waste treated each year, 9,000 homes supplied with energy… This is a major project for Corrèze which has just been presented. We are no longer talking about an incinerator, but an energy recovery plant.
A strategic contract for the next 25 years, worth 110 million euros, was signed between the company Véolia and the Corrèze Household Waste Transport and Treatment Union, chaired by Frédéric Soulier, the mayor of Brive.
For him, it is about replacing the current factory built in 1972 and which has become obsolete, but also about changing era: “We are in a totally different industrial economy (…). We need to have a ‘secure’ tool that responds to health and safety.”
We are in a beautiful industrial production tool.
Frédéric SoulierMayor of Brive
The call for tenders for the waste recovery plant was won by Véolia.
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Olivier Houel, director of the Véolia group, specifies: “50 years ago, we produced energy to sell it piecemeal. Today, 100% of the energy we produce is recovered, resold in urban heating networks or to industrialists, such as Blédina.”
The foundation stone of the new factory will be laid in 2026 for commissioning in 2028.
