Skellefteå Kraft is a municipality-owned power company in
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
. The company was established in 1908. It operates in
Skellefteå,
Lycksele,
Storuman
Storuman ( sma, Luspie, Ume Sami: ''Lusspie'') is a locality and the seat of Storuman Municipality in Västerbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 2,207 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated by the Ume River, at the southeastern end of ...
and
Sundsvall
Sundsvall () is a city and the seat of Sundsvall Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden. It has a population of 58,807 as of 2020; more than 95,000 live in the municipal area. It is Sweden's 21st largest city by population.
History
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in Sweden, and in
Jakobstad in
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. The company owns a number of hydroelectric power stations as also stakes in the
Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant
Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden that provides 14% of Sweden's total electricity output, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste. It is operated by a company mai ...
and
Alholmens Kraft Power Station
The Alholmens Kraft Power Station (also known as Jakobstad Power Station or Pietarsaari Power Station) is a biomass power station in Alholmen, Jakobstad in Ostrobothnia region, Finland. It is the largest biomass cogeneration power station in the ...
. In cooperation with
Fortum, the company develops the
Blaiken wind farm.
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The company also operates several regional and local power distribution networks and owns a wood pellets production plant. Together with the technology company
Outotec it has established a bio energy power plants technology company GreenExergy AB.
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Electric power companies of Sweden
Electric power distribution network operators in Sweden
Electricity retailers in Sweden
Companies based in Västerbotten County
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