Sweden

Offshore Wind Power

Total Installed Global Wind Energy Capacity Grew to 906 GW. This Represents Year-On-Year Growth of 9%.

The definitive status report for the global wind industry has been published. Featuring the latest key statistics, chapters looking at the key challenges facing…

Nuclear Technology

Application Submitted to Extend Swedish Repository

Sweden's radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) has submitted an application to the Radiation Safety Authority,…

Wind Farm

Wind Energy Produces 27 Percent of Sweden’s Electricity in February

Sweden has seen a remarkable rise in its wind energy production which reached 27% in February. This has made up for the 6% drop in hydropower due to droughts an…

Energy Storage Battery

Sustainable Thermal Energy Batteries From Fully Bio‐Based Transparent Wood

A building material that combines coconuts, lemons and modified wood could one day be enough to heat and cool your home. The three renewable sources provide the…

Electric Vehicle Charging

EU Votes to Kill Range Anxiety With Rapid Boost in EV Chargers for Cars and Trucks

A new law agreed by the European Union this week will require member countries to significantly ramp up the deployment of publicly available charging stations f…

Nuclear Power Plant

Restart of Ringhals 4 Faces Further Delay

While the start-up of unit 4 of Sweden’s Ringhals NPP is ongoing, power generation from the unit is not now expected to start until 1 April, according to …

Electric Vehicle Battery

Electric roads would pave the way for smaller car batteries, shows modeling study

If an electric car charges while driving, the size of the battery can be reduced by up to 70 percent, and the load on the power grid can be spread out over the …

Offshore Wind Power

OX2 to Develop an Offshore Wind Energy Hub Outside the Coast of Southern Sweden

OX2 has initiated the development of the offshore wind energy hub Neptunus in southern Baltic Sea. The wind energy hub is estimated to have a total installed ca…

Energy Security

Safety Upgrade for 95-Year-Old Swedish Hydropower Plant

Photo courtesy NCCStatkraft has commissioned Nordic construction company NCC to implement dam safety-enhancing measures at the 80MW Hammarforsen hydropower plan…

Energy Saving

Study Highlights Lower Energy Consumption Thanks to Daylight Saving Time

This weekend it happens once again: Europeans will put the clocks forward by one hour. With the start of daylight-saving time, discussions break out—as they do…

SMR

Finland, Sweden and Ukraine consider Rolls-Royce SMRs

Britain's Rolls-Royce SMR has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to explore the deployment of its small modular reactor (SMR) in Finland and Sweden,…

Wind Farm

OX2 Signs an Asset Management Agreement for a 36-Turbine Wind Farm in Sweden

OX2 has signed an asset management agreement for a wind farm owned by Greencoat Renewables PLC (a company managed by Schroders Greencoat LLP) in Sweden. The dea…

Net Zero Emission

Vattenfall Gets International Supply Chain Award

Sustainable businesses need sustainable supply chains. Two years ago, Vattenfall started a supplier CO2 reduction project and we have worked hard to implement m…

Energy Storage Battery

Switzerland’s Axpo Buys 20MW Battery Storage Project in Sweden From Res and Scr

Switzerland’s largest energy firm Axpo has entered the battery storage market in Sweden, buying a project from developers RES and SCR set to come online i…

Offshore Wind Power

1.5 GW swedish offshore wind project powers ahead

The world’s leading offshore wind developer Ørsted has been granted a Natura 2000 permit for the 1.5 GW Skåne Offshore Wind Farm in Sweden.Th…