Excess heating/cooling in Esbjerg

The City of Esbjerg is at the forefront of the green transition in Denmark. This project has been undertaken by DIN Forsyning with the purpose of securing a circular and sector coupled approach to the undergoing PtX development locally in the City of Esbjerg. Efficient cooling is a necessity for PtX and DIN Forsyning intends to ensure that as much excess heat from PtX production as possible, finds its way to reutilization as district heating, supplied to homes and industry in the City of Esbjerg. DIN Forsyning shall deliver a system capable of integrating excess heat from the PtX Facilities into the district heating system and/or cooling the excess heat effi-ciently from the facility that cannot be utilized in the district heating System. The Contract is for the delivery of a turnkey process cooling plant for rejection of the excess heat from two Power-to-X plants (PtX plants) located on two different sites in the Måde area of Esbjerg, as well as supplying these PtX-plants with cooling water at specified maximum cooling water temperature to the Contract-ing Entity (the “Project”). The Project is a further development and expansion of the Contracting Entity’s district heating portfolio. The Contract consist of a common infrastructure project as specified in Employer’s Technical Requirements tender conditions section 2.1 and 2.2. Besides the common infrastructure, the Contract consist of different options as further listed in tender conditions section 1.3. The two PtX-plants have slightly different time schedules and to handle this within the project, the process cooling systems of the Works are split up into two options (option 1 and 2) designated Velbæk and Måde. The excess heat from the PtX-plants to be handled are approx. 250 MW from option 1: Cooling plant 20 Sahara, and 600 MW from option 2: Cooling plant 21 Måde The expected start date for construction is 10 June 2026 and with a completion date of 1 March 2029.