Waterford-based environmental services company FLI Energy has won a €35 million contract to build energy plants in Britain and Ireland.

The company, which is part of the FLI Group, will construct a number of anaerobic digestion plants that will use food, agricultural and other organic waste to generate gas, electricity and heat.

Under the terms of the contract, FLI becomes the sole supplier to Envar. Headquartered in Waterford, the FLI group was founded by Michael Flynn in 1989.