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Wave Energy Converter

New Tech From Two Scandinavian Firms to Cut Wave Energy Converter Cost and Mass

CorPower’s C4 device in Portugal.Swedish company CorPower Ocean and Norway-based OPS Solutions have developed a pre-tension cylinder (PTC) prototype, mark…

Nuclear Decommissioning

Dismantling of Swedish Reactors Reaches Milestone

Units 1 and 2 of the Oskarshamn plantThe dismantling of a reactor pressure vessel at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant marks the completion of a project to dis…

Hydropower Plant

Swedish Hydropower Could Expand by 4000MW, Study Finds

A study by AFRY Management Consulting, commissioned by the Swedish Association of Engineers, has identified the potential to increase Sweden’s hydropower …

SMR

Blykalla Starts Work on Non-nuclear Prototype SMR

A rendering of the Advanced Reactor Testing Site at OskarshamnSwedish lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla has broken ground for the …

Carbon Emissions

Swedish Researchers Highlight Timing as ‘Critical’ to Combat Biofouling and Emissions

Researchers from the Swedish KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) have created a model to estimate the speed and extent of slime accumulation aiming to help …

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

How Collaboration Is Fuelling Gothenburg’s Growing Battery Cluster – Including Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech

SEEL Swedish Electric Transport Laboratory, Sweden's testbed for electromobility.Gothenburg is a hub for innovation and at the forefront of sustainable indu…

Wind Farm

Sweden Seeks to Raise Property Tax on Wind Farms

A wind farm is seen from an atmospheric research aircraft en route to the Norwegian Sea from northern Sweden, July 30, 2019.The Swedish government on Tuesday sa…

Solar project

Sweden Adds 1 GW of Solar in 2024

Sweden added around 1 GW of solar in 2024, according to provisional figures from Swedish solar energy association Svensk Solenergi.The figures are down on Swede…

Sweden

Government Inquiry Recommends Lifting Swedish Uranium Ban

Sweden should remove its prohibition on uranium mining to allow it to be exploited like other natural resources regulated under the Minerals Act, a government i…

Wind Farm

Enercon Offloads Swedish Utility

[Image: Enercon]Swedish energy company Ellevio has acquired a Markbygden Net Vast, an electricity network company set up by Enercon to connect up wind farms wit…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Better Energy Connects Second Solar Park to Swedish Grid This Year

Better Energy has connected its second Swedish solar project of 2024 to the grid. The 24 GWh Lidköping project joins the 25 GWh Studsvik facility, which is…

Wind Farm

DORE Completes Swedish Wind Farm Sale

Image: UnsplashDowning Renewables & Infrastructure Trust (DORE) has completed the sale of its entire interest in Gabrielsberget wind farm in Sweden to Angel Win…

Nuclear waste

SKB to Weld Finnish Nuclear Waste Capsules

Friction stir welding of a copper lid in SKB’s canister laboratory in Oskarshamn, Sweden (Photo credit: SKB)Swedish radioactive waste management company S…

Battery

ABB to Acquire Gamesa’s Power Electronics, Storage Business

ABB has agreed to purchase Gamesa’s power electronics and storage business, which produces doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) wind converters, industri…

Offshore Wind Power

Swedish Inquiry Proposes Auction Model for Offshore Wind

[Image: Unsplash/Mary Ray]An inquiry into offshore wind in Sweden has been completed proposing that the Government replaces the developer-led process with an au…