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Energy in Sweden

Index Energy in Sweden

Energy in Sweden describes energy and electricity production, consumption and import in Sweden. [1]

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Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant

Barsebäck is a decommissioned boiling water nuclear power plant situated in Barsebäck, Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne, Sweden.

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Biofuel in Sweden

Biofuels are renewable fuels that are produced by living organisms (biomass).

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Boiling water reactor

The boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power.

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Centre Party (Sweden)

The Centre Party (Centerpartiet, abbreviated C) is a liberal and agrarian political party in Sweden.

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Christian Democrats (Sweden)

The Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna, KD) is a Christian democratic political party in Sweden.

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Climate change in Canada

In Canada, mitigation of anthropogenic climate change is being addressed more seriously by the provinces than by the federal government.

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Climate change in the United States

Because of global warming, there has been concern in the United States and internationally, that the country should reduce total greenhouse gas which is relatively high per capita and is the second largest in the world after China, as of 2014.

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Electricity generation

Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.

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Electricity sector in Sweden

Majority of electricity production in Sweden relies on hydro power and nuclear power.

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Energy in Finland

Energy in Finland describes energy and electricity production, consumption and import in Finland.

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Eurostat

Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg.

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Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant

Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste.

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International Energy Agency

The International Energy Agency (IEA) (Agence internationale de l'énergie) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.

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Löfven Cabinet

The cabinet of Stefan Löfven is the present Government of Sweden.

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List of hydroelectric power stations in Sweden

The following is a list of hydroelectric power stations in Sweden with a nameplate capacity > 100 MW.

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List of renewable energy topics by country

This is a list of renewable energy topics by country.

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Lule River

Lule River (Lule älv, Luleälven) is a major river in Sweden, rising in northern Sweden and flowing southeast for before reaching the Gulf of Bothnia at Luleå.

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Lysekil

Lysekil is a locality and the seat of Lysekil Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.

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Methanol

Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol among others, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated MeOH).

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Moderate Party

The Moderate Party (Moderata samlingspartiet, M: "Moderate Unity Party", commonly referred to in Swedish as Moderaterna: "Moderates") is a liberal-conservative political party in Sweden.

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Nordic energy market

Nordic electricity market is a common market for electricity in the Nordic countries.

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.

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Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman is an international management consulting firm with a large focus on banking and financial services.

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Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant

The Nuclear power station Oskarshamn is one of three active nuclear power stations in Sweden.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.

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Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics (PV) is a term which covers the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.

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Pressurized water reactor

Pressurized water reactors (PWRs) constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (notable exceptions being the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada) and are one of three types of light water reactor (LWR), the other types being boiling water reactors (BWRs) and supercritical water reactors (SCWRs).

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Renewable Energy Directive 2009

The Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC is a European Union directive which mandates levels of renewable energy use within the European Union.

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Renewable energy in Denmark

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Renewable energy in Finland

Renewable energy in Finland grew to 38.7% of total final energy consumption by year end 2014 (it was just 29.2% in 2005), achieving joint second position with Latvia in terms of renewable energy consumption by share amongst the EU-28 countries, behind its neighbour Sweden in first position on a 52.6% share.

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Renewable energy in Iceland

About 85% of the total primary energy supply in Iceland is derived from domestically produced renewable energy sources.

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Renewable energy in Norway

Norway is a heavy producer of renewable energy because of hydropower.

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Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant

Ringhals is a Swedish nuclear power plant with 4 reactors, one boiling water reactor (R1) and three pressurized water reactors (R2, R3 and R4).

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Statistics Sweden

Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB) is the Swedish government agency responsible for producing official statistics regarding Sweden.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Tall oil

Tall oil, also called "liquid rosin" or tallol, is a viscous yellow-black odorous liquid obtained as a by-product of the Kraft process of wood pulp manufacture when pulping mainly coniferous trees.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Uppsala University

Uppsala University (Uppsala universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries still in operation, founded in 1477.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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Wave farm

A wave farm – or wave power farm or wave energy park – is a collection of machines in the same location and used for the generation of wave power electricity.

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Wave power

Wave power is the capture of energy of wind waves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water.

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Wind power

Wind power is the use of air flow through wind turbines to mechanically power generators for electricity.

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Wind power in Sweden

Sweden consumes about 150 terawatt hours of electricity per year, of which about 16 TW·hhttp://www.nyteknik.se/tekniknyheter/article3963431.ece is generated from domestic wind power resources.

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Wind power in the European Union

As of December 2017, installed capacity of wind power in the European Union totaled 169,3 gigawatts (MW).

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WindEurope

WindEurope, formerly the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), is an association based in Brussels, promoting the use of wind power in Europe.

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World energy consumption

World energy consumption is the total energy used by the entire human civilization.

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World Energy Council

The World Energy Council is a global and inclusive forum for thought-leadership and tangible engagement with headquarters in London.

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Renewable energy in Sweden, Solar power in Sweden.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Sweden

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