Amager Bakke (Amager Hill), also known as Amager Slope or Copenhill, is a

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waste-to-energy Waste-to-energy (WtE) or energy-from-waste (EfW) is the process of generating energy in the form of electricity and/or heat from the primary treatment of waste, or the processing of waste into a fuel source. WtE is a form of energy recovery. Mo ...

plant and recreational facility in

Amager Amager ( or, especially among older speakers, ) in the Øresund is Denmark's most densely populated island, with more than 212,000 inhabitants (January 2021) a small appendage to Zealand. The protected natural area of ''Naturpark Amager'' (includi ...

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Denmark, located prominently within view of the city's downtown. The facility opened in 2017,Serup, M. (30 March 2017)
Skidt, skrald og æggebakker indvier Amager Bakke.
TV2-Lorry. Retrieved 19 July 2017. and partially replaced the nearby old

incineration Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. Industrial plants for waste incineration are commonly referred to as waste-to-energy facilities. Incineration and other high ...

plant in Amager, which is in the process of being converted from coal to

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(expected finished 2020).Slavin, T. (26 October 2016)
An incinerator with a view: Copenhagen waste plant gets ski slope and picnic area.
The Guardian. 19 July 2017. The two plants play a major role in Copenhagen's ambitions of meeting

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requirements by 2025. The recreational components of the facility (the dry ski run, hiking trail and climbing wall) opened in December 2018, with an attendance estimated at 42-57 thousand visitors annually. Copenhill was named the World Building of the Year 2021'' at the fourteenth annual

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Construction and technicalities

The plant opened on 30 March 2017. It is estimated to cost $670 million, and is expected to burn 400,000 tons of

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annually. It also houses a sports facility designed by

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with an tall sloped roof that doubles as year-round

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, hiking slope and

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, which opened to the public October 4–6, 2019. The climbing wall, manufactured by

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, is the world's tallest climbing wall at 85 meters. Technically, the plant is designed to change between operating modes, producing 0-63 MW electricity and 157-247 MW

district heating District heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating ...

, depending on the local heat demand and power price. It produces more clean water than it uses. Because of filtration and other technologies,

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emission is expected to be reduced by 99.5% and NO_x by about 95% as well as dioxins and

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and it is claimed to be the cleanest incineration plant in the world. An experiment intended the chimney to not emit its exhaust continuously, but instead in the form of "smoke" rings (consisting of water vapour rather than actual smoke).Frearson, A. (25 February 2015)
Video reveals trial of smoke-ring-blowing chimney for BIG's Copenhagen power plant.
Dezeen. Retrieved 19 July 2017.

Operational history

On September 7, 2018 all waste treatment and energy production was stopped for 17 days to fix a design flaw in the compensators of the low pressure steam system.

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Technical brochure

Video of 3 years of construction

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