A new heat agreement will enable the Avedøre power station‘s Unit 2 to be 100% fuelled by wood pellets.

The heat companies Centralkommunernes Transmissionsselskab I/S (CTR), VEKS and DONG Energy have concluded a new heat agreement for Unit 2 of the Avedøre power station for the period until 2027. The agreement will involve expansion of the power station’s Unit 2 to enable it to be 100% fuelled by wood pellets in future. The investment in the expansion will total almost DKK 100 million.

“The heat agreement that DONG Energy, CTR and VEKS have agreed on is good. The ability to expand our capacity to burn wood pellets is a key element of DONG Energy’s strategy concerning renewable electricity and heat generation. This will allow us to reduce our CO2 emissions,” says Thomas Dalsgaard, Executive Vice President of DONG Energy.

The biomass-based heat agreement ties in well with the ambitions of the heat companies VEKS and CTR to increase the share of biomass-based heat to the Greater Copenhagen area.

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