Location: Aarhus municipality, east coast of Jutland
Power-generating capacity: 362 MW
Heat-generating capacity: 513 MJ/s
Fuel: Sustainable wood pellets
In operation since: 1968
Biomass conversion: 2016
Converted from coal to sustainable wood pellets, Studstrup heat and power plant is one of the largest biomass-fuelled power stations in the world, providing enough power and heat for hundreds of thousands of Danish homes.
Studstrup heat and power plant also consists of the coal-fired unit 4, which can generate 360 MW of electricity. On 1 October 2022, the Danish authorities decided to order Ørsted to resume operations of three of its power station units which use oil and coal as fuel, in order to ensure the security of the electricity supply in Denmark. Unit 4 at Studstrup is one of the units to resume operations until 30 June 2024.