Amager Bakke
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 41 '3 " N , 12 ° 37' 13" E | ||
| country | Denmark | ||
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| Type | Waste incineration plant | ||
| fuel | residual waste | ||
| operator | amager resource center (arc) | ||
| Project start | 2013 | ||
| Start of operations | 2017 | ||
| Chimney height | 85 m | ||
| Website | www.arc.dk/amager-bakke (Danish) | ||
Amager Bakke is a waste incineration plant opened in 2017 in Copenhagen . It is supposed to supply around 160,000 households with district heating and 62,500 houses with electrical energy from 400,000 tons of waste annually . The sloping roof also serves as an artificial ski slope .
description
Amager Bakke is located on the Danish island of Amager in the Öresund . To the north, the facility is part of the Christianshavn district of Copenhagen .
Construction of Amager Slope began in 2013 and took four years to complete. The facility was opened on March 30, 2017.
particularities
The Amager Slope has a total of 450 meters of ski slopes ( CopenHill ) on the roof and has a viewing platform. The ski slope is coated with Neveplast so that you can ski on it all year round without snow. Together with the existing tourist offers in the area, this should attract further visitors.
Web links
- Thomas K. Grose: Urban Ski Slope to Raise Profile of Europe's Waste-to-Energy Drive , National Geographic of August 2, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ No Joke: A Massive Trash Incinerator With a Ski Slope on Top on wired.com , accessed on May 2, 2014.
- ↑ Mette Serup: Skidt, skrald og æggebakker indvier Amager Bakke (Danish). TV2 Lorry . March 30, 2017, accessed May 30, 2018.
- ↑ You can now ski in Copenhagen - without snow. October 7, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Copenhill Press Kit 2019. (PDF; 4.8 MB) Retrieved on April 13, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Amager Bakke. Danish Architecture Center, accessed August 22, 2019 .