Denmark’s not very hilly, and doesn’t get as much snow as its Scandineighbors, but it’s putting itself in the running for ski fame by building a ski slope on a generating plant at the edge of Stockholm.
The Amager Bakke waste-to-power plant is part of Copenhagen’s plan to become the world’s first zero-carbon city by 2025. In addition to planning it as a clean plant that would use the city’s garbage for fuel, planners broke the mold on design: The exterior is all aluminum, and the roof is a 180-metre ski-slope, with four levels of challenge, from easy to “black run.”
The plant is expected to turn 400,000 tons of waste a year into power for 60,000 homes and communal heating plants, with pure water as the waste product. It goes on line December 1, with the ski slope to open next year.
