The Metropolitan Copenhagen Heating Transmission Company

The Metropolitan Copenhagen Heating Transmission Company, CTR for short, is a partnership formed in 1984 by the municipalities of Frederiksberg, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Copenhagen and Tårnby.
 

CTR has the objective of supplying the individual recipient municipalities and local heat supply enterprises with district heating, primarily based on surplus heat from waste incineration plants and combined heat and power generation plants (CHP plants). Oil-fired heating plants are only used in peak-load and/or back-up situations.

CTR’s assignments cover the purchase of heat from production units, heat generation in its own peak-load and back-up units, transport through the transmission system and sales to the five Partnership Municipalities, as well as the exchange of heat with Vestegnens Kraftvarmeselskab I/S (VEKS). Moreover, CTR is in charge of the planning, establishment, funding and further development of the entire transmission system. Finally, CTR partcipates as an associate by investing in and operating a geothermal facility in Amager, from which facility heat is also received.
 

The transmission system consists of 54 km of double piping, 26 heat-exchanger stations, 3 pumping stations, 12 peak-load and back-up units, as well as a computer-based control, regulation and monitoring system.
District Heating Transmission