Straw-fired combined heat and power plant in Aarhus — a major step towards the city’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030
We tell why.
AffaldVarme Aarhus, the municipality-owned energy utility for Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, put into operation a new 110 MW biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant at its Lisbjerg energy complex in 2017. The project also provides for the storage of straws.
With this CHP, Aarhus’s needs for heat and electricity began to be met solely through clean energy sources.
The approximately DKK 1.3 billion (≈ EUR 174.7 million) investment.
One of Denmark’s largest waste management facilities also operates in Lisbierg – around 670 000 tonnes per annum of municipal solid waste (MSW) is processed of which 225 000 tonnes thermally treated in three lines providing district heat and power. This biomass plant uses locally sourced straw and woodchips.
About district heating in Aarhus
AffaldVarme Aarhus (AVA) owns and operates most of the district heating system in the city of Aarhus, Denmark. The system comprises of more than 2,000 km of highly insulated main pipe and service branches, together with servicing 95% of all residents in the municipality (about 340,000 people) for the purpose of space heating and on-site preparation of domestic hot water. This makes the Aarhus district heating system the second largest in Denmark.
Source: Bioenergy International, Digital Twins
