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

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plant (new resource handling centre) and a tall recreational facility in

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, located prominently within view of the city's downtown. The facility opened in 2017, and partially replaced the nearby old

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

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(completed in 2020). The two plants played a major role in Copenhagen's ambitions of meeting zero carbon requirements by 2025, but the operator Amager Resource Center was found ineligible for national CCS funding in 2022. 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 85 meters tall sloped roof that doubles as year-round

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, hiking slope and

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, which opened to the public 4–6 October 2019. The climbing wall, manufactured by Walltopia, is the world's tallest permanent climbing wall at 80 meters. Technically, the plant is designed to change between operating modes, producing 0-63 MW electricity and 157-247 MW

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, 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

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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

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rather than actual smoke).

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.a-r-c.dk/amager-bakke
Technical brochure

Video of 3 years of construction

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