pbc today
Summary
It’s a curious quirk of modern placemaking: the same communities that campaign passionately to preserve our monumental cooling towers, redundant power stations, and other infrastructure often oppose, with equal fervour, the development of new homes or clean energy infrastructure. Could understanding this contradiction be the key to delivering both the homes and the power that modern society increasingly depends upon, and can we learn from the rare success stories?
So, can we make our new energy infrastructure, wherever it is located, more aesthetically pleasing and perhaps more acceptable to the public? A good example is CopenHill or Amager Bakke, a functioning combined heat and power energy from waste plant in Copenhill, Copenhagen. The facility processes the waste of more than 500,000 residents and 45,000 businesses each year, generating heat and electricity for almost 150,000 homes. Significantly, it accommodates a range of recreational areas on its roof, including a dry ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, which many thousands visit each year to pursue sports and enjoy the views of the city. It is not without its detractors, but it does provide a pointer to how we might live with energy infrastructure in our locality.
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