Amager Power Station

Amager Power Station has three units of which two are running at the moment. Units 1 and 3 supply electricity to the Nordic grid and district heat for the district heating network of the Greater Copenhagen area.

With its two active plants, Unit 1 and Unit 3, Amager Power Station covers approximately 12 % of the electricity consumption of Zealand and a district heat demand corresponding to some 300,000 households.
 

 A new Unit 1
In 2004 Unit 1, originally a coal-fired plant from the early ’70s, was decommissioned for a thorough renovation. In May 2010, Unit 1 was inaugurated and is now equipped with environmental installations to clean the flue gas of nitrogen oxides and sulphur. Unit 3, which is fuelled with coal, already features such installations. Unit 1 is constructed as a multifuel plant equipped with a new boiler and turbine plant. In addition to the desulphurisation and deNOx plants, a new stack has been erected for the unit. Vattenfall aims to use 100 % biomass in the modernised unit.

The heat and electricity produced from biomass in Unit 1 mean savings of more than 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year compared with the same type of production based on coal.

The Copenhagen Plan
From the very beginning, heat generation for the district heating network of the Greater Copenhagen area has accounted for a considerable part of Amager Power Station’s total energy production. The renovation and conversion of Unit 1 is an integral part of the Copenhagen Plan, which is designed to secure the heat supply in Copenhagen for the next 20 years ahead. The Copenhagen Plan also involves a large-scale steam tunnel from Amager Power Station to the city centre. Running under the harbour, the tunnel transports the steam from Unit 1 to the Copenhagen district heating network.