Avedore power station

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Avedore power station is a 782-megawatt (MW) power station in Hovedstaden, Denmark.

Unit 1 (263 MW) was coal-fired, but was converted to biomass in 2016.

Location

The undated satellite photo below shows the power station in Hvidovre.

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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.

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.

As of 2015, unit 1 is being converted from coal to wood pellets at a price of DKK 740 million. It will burn 1.2 million tonnes of wood pellets per year. The new biomass unit is planned to start in the fall of 2016 and operate through 2033. The conversion was completed in December 2016.

Project Details of unit 1

• Sponsor: DONG Energy Group
• Parent company:
• Developer:
• 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:

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