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Newsroom: A strong result and a development drives the transition for Vattenfall
Vattenfall’s President and CEO Anna Borg comments on the interim report for January-June 2021. “Achieving our goal of enabling fossil-free living within one generation requires that we cooperate with customers and other partners – also outside [...]
Technology from Sweden will cool the Haliade-X turbine
Global wind turbine manufacturer GE Renewable Energy has selected Malmö-based Heatex as a cooling system supplier for the Haliade-X + 12MW offshore wind turbine generator. […]
Sweden is the most attractive for wind investors in the Nordic region
The Swedish Wind Energy Association (SWEA) informs that so far in 2021, 15 billion Swedish kronor (1,47 billion euro) has already been invested in wind energy. Sweden attracted the most investments [...]
Swedish municipalities’ veto for wind projects only at the beginning of the investment
Sweden’s environment ministry has focused on municipalities’ right to object to the construction of wind farms. For this purpose, a special team was set up to study the consequences of its removal or to present a [...]
Nordic TSOs have been working on strategy for wind energy development
Four Scandinavian transmission network operators - Energinet, Fingrid, Statnett and Svenska Kraftnät - are working on the development plan for the Nordic TSO Strategy until 2030. The document focuses on the development of wind energy in countries and sector integration. [...]
Newsroom: Sweden plans to reduce grid interconnection costs for offshore wind developers
Newsroom: Sweden plans to reduce grid interconnection costs for offshore wind developers According to the Renewables Consulting Group’s (RCG) Global Renewable Infrastructure Projects (GRIP) database, Sweden has already granted grid connection to 28.9 GW of offshore wind grid connection. Tor [...]
Swedish developer of floating wind platforms will go public
According to the Swedish media, the wind company Hexicon plans to debut on the stock exchange. On June 4, 2021, it announced its intention to conduct an offer to sell its own auctions. The prospectus has already been approved by [...]
Offshore wind energy may make southern Sweden independent from energy imports
According to the Danish analytical centre Aegir Insights, offshore wind energy is a promising solution to Sweden's problem of electricity deficit in the south of the country. According to data from Wind Europe, at the end of 2020, there are [...]
Installed capacity in offshore wind farms in Swedish waters reaches 192 MW
According to Wind Europe data, at the end of 2020, the installed capacity in offshore wind farms in Europe amounted to 25 GW. There were 5 offshore farms in operation in Sweden with a total capacity of 192 MW. The [...]
For projects Långgrund 1 and 2 still against the wind. The Swedish Armed Forces say “no”
The investor Svea Vind Offshore plans to build two wind farms Långgrund 1 and Långgrund 1 in the waters of the Baltic Sea. Swedish media reports that the armed forces continue to refuse to approve the projects. Långgrund 1 (1,395 [...]
The Swedish government wants to reduce the costs of connecting offshore wind energy farms to the power grid
In February, the Swedish Ministry of Infrastructure proposed to reduce the costs of connecting offshore wind farms to the electricity grid, which are borne by electricity producers. On February 2, 2021, a proposal for regulations announced four years ago was [...]
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