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More than 99 % of our water came from the sea, mainly for cooling at our Danish CHP stations. We reuse seawater in a closed system, minimising environmental impact. At one of our stations, seawater is used as process water to reduce groundwater usage.
We continued our efforts to protect water resources through the following key actions:
Initiatives to reduce our freshwater withdrawals:
- We’re strengthening water-saving initiatives like installing a condensate cleaning plant at Asnæs Power Station for an 80,000 m3/year water saving.
- We’re continuing partnerships with Kalundborg Symbiosis and Copenhagen District Heating to substitute clean freshwater with Equinor and HOFOR wastewater.
Initiatives to strengthen water management governance:
- We disclosed our third publicly available CDP water security report to transparently report on the details of our water management approach. We’ll use the CDP framework to guide our actions in our water efforts.
- We’re conducting thorough Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) during project phases, addressing water regulations and ecosystem preservation.
- We’re performing annual impact assessments at vulnerable CHP stations and measuring water stress at the site level using WRI's Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas.
- We’re ensuring there are no water withdrawals from high-stress areas, as per the Water Risk Atlas, combined with continuous monitoring of water discharges, quality, and temperature at all sites to meet legal requirements.
For more information, please see our
CDP report 2024.
