Avedore power station
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Avedore power station is an operating power station of at least 1420-megawatts (MW) in Hovedstaden, Denmark.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
| Plant name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
|---|---|---|
| Avedore power station | Hovedstaden, Denmark | 55.60216, 12.479064 (exact)[1] |
The map below shows the exact location of the power station.
Unit-level coordinates (WGS 84):
- Unit CC: 55.60216, 12.479064
- Unit 1, Unit 2: 55.6036, 12.481
Project Details
Table 2: Unit-level details
| Unit name | Status | Fuel(s) | Capacity (MW) | Technology | CHP | Start year | Retired year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | retired | coal - bituminous | 263 | supercritical | – | 1990 | 2016 |
| Unit 1 | operating[2] | bioenergy - wood & other biomass (solids), coal - unknown, fossil gas - natural gas[2] | 250[3] | – | – | 1990[2] | – |
| Unit 2 | operating[2] | bioenergy - wood & other biomass (solids), coal - unknown, fossil gas - natural gas[2] | 585[4] | – | – | 2002[2] | – |
| Unit CC | operating[5] | fossil liquids - heavy fuel oil, bioenergy - agricultural waste (solids), fossil gas - natural gas[6] | 585[7] | combined cycle[7] | – | 2001[8] | – |
CHP is an abbreviation for Combined Heat and Power. It is a technology that produces electricity and thermal energy at high efficiencies. Coal units track this information in the Captive Use section when known.
Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details
| Unit name | Owner | Parent |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | Ørsted A/S | – |
| Unit 1 | Ørsted A/S[2] | – |
| Unit 2 | Ørsted A/S[2] | – |
| Unit CC | Ørsted A/S | Ørsted A/S |
Unit-level fuel conversion details:
Unit 1: Converted from coal - bituminous to bioenergy - wood & other biomass (solids), coal - unknown, fossil gas - natural gas in 2016.
Background
Avedore consists of two units: the 263 MW unit 1 and the 570 MW unit 2, commissioned in 1990 and 2001, respectively. Avedore supplies electricity to Eastern Denmark's grid and heat to Greater Copenhagen's district heating network.[9]
Avedøre 1 primarily used coal as fuel. Avedøre 2 is a multi-fuel system, which utilizes natural gas, oil, straw and wood pellets. Unit 2 consists of a steam turbine system, a gas turbine system and a straw-fired biomass system. The biomass system has a capacity of 45 MW.[10]
As of 2015, unit 1 was being converted from coal to wood pellets at a price of DKK 740 million. It was expected to burn 1.2 million tonnes of wood pellets per year.[11] The new biomass unit was planned to start in the fall of 2016 and operate through 2033.[12] The conversion was completed in December 2016.[13]
Dong has been known as Ørsted since its name change in 2017.[14]
Coal Project Details (Unit 1)
- Sponsor: Ørsted
- Parent company: Ørsted A/S
- Location: Hvidovre, Hovedstaden, Hovedstaden
- Coordinates: 55.60216, 12.479064 (exact)
- Status: Retired (converted to run on biomass in 2016)
- Capacity: 263 MW
- Type: Supercritical
- Start date: 1990
- Coal Type: Bituminous
- Coal Source:
- Source of financing:
Articles and Resources
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240125040628/https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/25134192. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 https://web.archive.org/web/20230525225516/https://orsted.com/-/media/www/docs/corp/com/our-business/bioenergy-and-thermal-power/plants-brochures/avedrevrket_brochure_eng_web.ashx. Archived from the original on 25 May 2023.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170521174428/http://new.abb.com:80/power-generation/references/modernizing-a-super-efficient-chp-plant-in-denmark. Archived from the original on 21 May 2017.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110719124627/http://www.isc.dk/internet/Kompetencer.nsf/ProjekterUKWeb/7F40F2C2A65423C5C12572BB003E6339?OpenDocument.
{{cite web}}: Check|archive-url=value (help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240125040518/https://orstedcdn.azureedge.net/-/media/www/docs/corp/com/our-business/bioenergy-and-thermal-power/plants-brochures/avv_brochure_dk_web.ashx?la=en&hash=A0E7982AF29FF17EADFB50286704AD0BAC20898F&hash=A0E7982AF29FF17EADFB50286704AD0BAC20898F&rev=211ac704899847759ef9c04f9d84cfef. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240125040531/https://ing.dk/artikel/avedoerevaerket-kan-nu-koere-med-fuld-kraft-paa-traepiller. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240125040450/https://journals.pan.pl/Content/94093/PDF/05_paper.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240125040529/https://dac.dk/viden/arkitektur/avedoere-kraftvarmevaerk/. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "Coal-Fired Plants in Denmark," Industcards, accessed April 2016
- ↑ "Where we operate," DONG Energy, accessed April 2016
- ↑ Wittrup, Sanne. "Dong Energy starter ombygning af Avedøreværket " Ingeniøren, March 27, 2015.
- ↑ "DONG Energy is converting coal-fired power station to green energy," DONG Energy, March 27, 2015
- ↑ Diarmaid Williams, "Denmark’s largest coal plant fully converts to biomass," Decentralized Energy, December 13, 2016
- ↑ "A tale of transformation: the Danish company that went from black to green energy," Corporate Knights, April 16, 2019
Additional data
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