Kara/Noveren

Kara/Noveren ia a waste management company owned by nine municipalities in the western and southern part of metropolitan Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2014, Kara/Noveren inaugurated a new, energy-efficient waste-to-energy plant in Roskilde. It was designed by the Dutch architect Erick Van Egeraat and is known as Energitårnet ("The Energy Tower").

Company

KARA has is owned by Greve, Holbæk, Kalundborg, Køge, Lejre, Odsherred, Roskilde, Solrødan Stevns municipalities. The company has some 400,000 private and 22,500 commercial customers.

The Energy Tower

The Energy Tower waste-to-energy plant was inaugurated on 2 September 2014. The cost of its construction was FKK 1.3 billion. The facility produces electricity for approximately 65,000 households and district heating for 40,000 households, utilizing close to 100% of the energy in the waste as opposed to only 7+ % in the old oven line.[1] The electricity is sold to SEAS-NVE while the heat is sold to Roskilde Forsyning.

The building is the result of an architectural competition won by Erick Van Egeraat in 2010.[2] The building has a two layered façade, the outer layer consists of amber-coloured aluminium plates with laser-cut circular openings. A backlighting scheme creates a spark which for a few minutes every hour gradually illuminates the entire building.

References

  1. ↑ "Emergitårnet til 1,3 milliarder kroner indviet I Roskildenoget" (in Danish). Byens Ejendomme. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Glowing icon in Denmark". World Architecture News. Retrieved 5 January 2015.

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