Svanemølle Power Station ( Danish: Svanemølleværket) is a natural gas fueled

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located at the south side of Svanemølle Bay in the

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. Its primary task is to supply

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to the district-heating network of Greater Copenhagen.

History

Svanemølle Power Station was built by

Københavns Belysningsvæsen Københavns Belysningsvæsen was a municipally owned company which supplied Copenhagen Municipality, Copenhagen Tårnby Municipality, Tårnby and Dragør Municipality, Dragør municipalities with first gas and later electricity and distant heating, ...

between 1947 and 1953 to supplement

H. C. Ørsted Power Station H. C. Ørsted Power Station ( Danish: H. C. Ørstedværket) is a natural gas fired combined heat and power station located at Enghave Brygge, Sydhavnen in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is owned and operated by Ørsted. It is named after the Danish ...

in the

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. It was designed by Louis Hygom who had already carried out expansions and adaptions of the H. C. Ørsted plant in 1924 and 1932. The plant was originally coal-fired but was converted to natural gas and oil firing in 1985. In 1995 two old generators were replaced by a gas turbine referred to as unit 7.

Architecture

Svanemølle Power Station is built in reinforced concrete and dressed in red brick. Its constellation of boxes and cubic volumes is inspired by

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highrise and factory architecture of the 1930s.

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