Biomass Power Plant Generates Power for Zealand

The new generator at Asnæs Power Station in Denmark – fuelled by wood chips – is providing power for the Zealand grid for the first time. Henrik Boye Jørgensen, senior project manager at Ørsted and responsible for the construction of Asnæs Power Station’s unit 6, comments: “It’s fantastic that we’ve come this far with the project. In August, we were able to supply the first green district heating and process steam to our customers, and now we’ve connected the unit to the grid and generated green power for the Zealand grid.”

The plant’s new turbine has a capacity of 25 MW power and 129MJ/s process steam, as well as district heating. To generate power, the steam must be fed into the turbine at a pressure of 100 bar and a temperature of 540°C.