Ørsted concluded an agreement with Danish district heating companies VEKS and CTR use sExcess heat from carbon dioxide capture at Abedour power station. The surplus heat will provide district heating for up to 16,000 Danish households in the Copenhagen metropolitan area.
Excess heat from carbon capture is used for district heating in the Copenhagen metropolitan area, Denmark
Photo: Abedore Power Plant
Denmark’s Abedor Power Plant is setting up a carbon capture plant to capture 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year from straw-fired units. The plant uses straw from local fields in Zealand to produce heat and electricity for Greater Copenhagen, and from 2026 biogenic carbon from the chimney will be captured and stored. is.
Once the carbon capture plant is operational, a large amount of surplus heat will be generated, which can be used to provide cheap and environmentally friendly district heating for the Copenhagen metropolitan area.
“We are always looking at opportunities to provide environmentally competitive district heating and are delighted to have concluded an agreement with our heating customer to utilize surplus heat from a future carbon capture plant. By integrating carbon capture and heat generation in power plants, we can make the most of the energy in our fuels and provide cheap and environmentally friendly district heating for Greater Copenhagen, while reducing CO2. You can minimize your own energy consumption for carbon capture. ” To tell Ole Thomsen, Senior Vice President and Head of Bioenergy, Ørsted.
The energy required to capture the carbon is renewable, as it comes from the power plant’s own straw-fired units. The same energy can be used twice by upgrading excess heat from the carbon capture process and exhaust gas condensation to district heating via a heat pump. This will enable more environmentally friendly district heating in Greater Copenhagen and significantly reduce the energy consumption of the carbon capture process.
“This agreement is a very important and concrete step in the transformation of VEKS into the green technology of the future. It is a great example of why it is both high and affordable. We look forward to negotiating a long-term agreement on excess heat from power plants.” emphasize Steen Christiansen, VEKS President.
“There is no doubt that surplus heat from carbon capture will form part of the total heat supply to district heating customers in Greater Copenhagen. Collectively, we can continue to provide district heating at an attractive price.” To tell Line Burford, CTR Chair.
The carbon capture plant located in the straw-fired unit of the Abedore power station generates approximately 34 MW of surplus heat from the carbon capture process and approximately 19 MW from the flue gas condensation process. The total surplus heat of 53 MW corresponds to the annual district heating consumption of approximately 16,000 Danish households.
The agreement between VEKS, CTR and Ørsted covers the period 2024-2027 and will be renegotiated to reach a long-term agreement on excess heat from carbon capture plants.
Ørsted is building another carbon capture plant at the Asnes power station in Callandborg, Denmark. We are also working with local heat and steam customers to devise a similar solution based on the use of Kallandborg’s surplus heat.
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Source: Ørsted