American Journal of Transportation
Summary
Ørsted has agreed with Danish district heating companies VEKS and CTR to utilize surplus heat from carbon capture at Avedøre Power Station. The surplus heat will provide district heating to up to 16,000 Danish households in the Greater Copenhagen area.
Avedøre Power Station in Denmark is establishing a carbon capture plant to capture 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually from its straw-fired unit. The plant uses straw from the local fields on Zealand to produce heat and power for the Greater Copenhagen area, and starting in 2026, the biogenic carbon from the stack will be captured and stored.
Following commissioning of the carbon capture plant, large volumes of surplus heat will be generated, which can be used to provide cheap, green district heating to the Greater Copenhagen area.
“We’re constantly looking into opportunities for providing green and competitive district heating, and I’m pleased that we’ve made an agreement with our heat customers to utilise the surplus heat from our future carbon capture plant. By integrating carbon capture with heat generation at the power station, we can make the most of the energy in the fuel and supply cheap, green district heating to the Greater Copenhagen area, while minimizing our own energy consumption for carbon capture,” says Ole Thomsen, Senior Vice President and Head of Bioenergy at Ørsted.
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