Oersted Power Station in Sydhavnen - South Harbour - Copenhagen, Denmark. A DONG Energy combined heat and power plant. DONG now renamed Ørsted.


The Ørsted Power Station (in English letters " Oersted Power Station") situated at Sydhavnen (South Harbour) in Copenhagen seen from the Amager side of the harbour. The power station was commissioned in 1920 as the largest power plant in Denmark. Coal was its key source of fuel until 1994 when it was converted to natural gas. Today the power station is a modern CHP plant whose primary task is to supply district heating to the Greater Copenhagen district-heating network. Its overall capacity is 185 MW of electricity and 815 MJ/s of district heat. In 2006 Ørsted Power Station generated a net quantity of 282 GWh of electricity and 3,499 TJ of district heating.


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Location: Sydhavnen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Photo credit: © Niels Quist / Alamy / Afripics
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