In connection with the ongoing tender for carbon capture and storage, Ørsted plans to establish carbon capture at Avedøre Power Station's straw-fired boiler and at Asnæs Power Station. Avedøre Power Station's straw-fired boiler has been designated to capture and deliver part of the carbon for the first phases of the Power-to-X project 'Green Fuels for Denmark', where the ambition is to develop green fuels for shipping and aviation. Avedøre Power Station's straw-fired boiler can also supply carbon for storage and serve as a hub for other actors with carbon emissions in the Greater Copenhagen area.
If financial support is obtained from the ongoing tender for carbon capture and storage and for the Power-to-X project, enabling both the ‘Green Fuels for Denmark’ project and the carbon capture project to be realised, the process for carbon capture as well as the later process for the production of green fuels will create large amounts of surplus heat that can be utilised in the Greater Copenhagen area’s district heating supply.
The parties have now signed a letter of intent, which is the first step in an agreement to supply surplus heat from Avedøre Power Station to CTR and VEKS.
Ole Thomsen, Senior Vice President responsible for Ørsted's thermal power business, says:
"I’m pleased that we share the ambition to exploit the surplus heat from the production of green fuels and carbon capture for district heating in the Greater Copenhagen area. The surplus heat will be generated by a process that uses power from an offshore wind farm and carbon from locally harvested straw to make green fuels for heavy transport. It will be difficult to make the district heating any greener than that."
Morten Stobbe, Deputy Director of VEKS, says: "With surplus heat from the new technologies, we’re strengthening green district heating and at the same time expanding Greater Copenhagen area’s multi-pronged district heating system. This provides robustness and shows in practice that district heating is adaptable and an important lever for sector coupling."
Kamma Eilschou Holm, CEO of CTR, says: "It’s really great that we’re now seeing the outlines for some major construction projects that in the long term can make us more independent of certified biomass, as we know it will be a scarce resource in future."
The ‘Green Fuels for Denmark’ project is expected to have 100 MW of electrolysis capacity ready from 2025 and 250 MW from 2027. Ørsted expects to start capturing sustainable carbon from the straw-fired boiler in 2025.
The straw-fired unit at Avedøre Power Station converts approximately 130,000 tons of locally sourced straw into electricity and heat annually. The straw is a by-product of agriculture. The carbon capture process from the straw-fired boiler is expected to generate approximately 48 MW of surplus heat, corresponding to the annual consumption of approximately 15,000 Danish households.
The combination of using straw as fuel and utilising the surplus heat from both the carbon capture process and the ‘Green Fuel for Denmark' project’s second phase with a 250 MW electrolysis capacity for producing green fuels will provide up to 260 MW of district heating, which corresponds to the annual consumption of approximately 60,000 Danish households. This results in both green and price-competitive district heating for the Greater Copenhagen area.
A future final investment decision on the carbon capture project is conditional on obtaining financial support from the ongoing tender for carbon capture and storage or on realising the parts of the ‘Green Fuels for Denmark’ project that deal with the production of e-methanol and e-kerosene. In addition, VEKS, CTR, and Ørsted must enter into a final agreement on the utilisation of surplus heat.
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