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/ref> In its official forecast , the Swedish Wind Energy Association (SWEA) projects that cumulative wind power capacity in the country will rise to 17.3 GW by the end of 2024 - 70% higher than 2020's roughly 10 GW. Such an expansion could increase the share of Sweden's electricity use met by wind power to over 30%.
/ref> :"... the wind power venture would involve production of 2,800 gigawatt hours, or GWh, of wind power electricity a year, accounting for between two to three percent of Sweden's electricity production." The
SWECO To Manage Wind Power Venture in Northern Sweden
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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 countries, Nordic c ...
consumes about 150 terawatt hours of electricity per year, of which about 19.8 TW·h (14.2%) was generated from domestic wind power
Wind power or wind energy is mostly the use of wind turbines to generate electricity. Wind power is a popular, sustainable, renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the environment than burning fossil fuels. Historically ...
resources in 2019, up from 2.4% in 2010 and 0.3% in 2000.Swedish Energy Agency/ref> In its official forecast , the Swedish Wind Energy Association (SWEA) projects that cumulative wind power capacity in the country will rise to 17.3 GW by the end of 2024 - 70% higher than 2020's roughly 10 GW. Such an expansion could increase the share of Sweden's electricity use met by wind power to over 30%.
Statistics
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Swedish package and paper products companySvenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget
Svenska Cellulosa AB (SCA, English: ''Swedish Cellulose Ltd.'') is a Swedish forest industry company with headquarters in Sundsvall.
SCA is the largest private forest owner in Europe. It owns 2.6 million hectares of forest in northern Swed ...
and Norwegian power company Statkraft
Statkraft AS is a hydropower company, fully owned by the Norwegian state. The Statkraft Group is a generator of renewable energy, as well as Norway’s largest and the Nordic region's third largest energy producer. Statkraft develops and genera ...
planned in 2009 to invest 16 billion kronor (€1.73 billion; US$2.4 billion) in a project which would consist of around 400 wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. ...
s in seven wind farm
A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turb ...
s in Jämtland
Jämtland (; no, Jemtland or , ; Jamtish: ''Jamtlann''; la, Iemptia) is a historical province () in the centre of Sweden in northern Europe. It borders Härjedalen and Medelpad to the south, Ångermanland to the east, Lapland to the nort ...
and Västernorrland counties
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
. Statkraft will provide financing and SCA the land.Sweden's SCA, Norway's Statkraft in $2.4 billion wind power venture/ref> :"... the wind power venture would involve production of 2,800 gigawatt hours, or GWh, of wind power electricity a year, accounting for between two to three percent of Sweden's electricity production." The
Markbygden Wind Farm
The Markbygden Wind Farm is a series of interconnected wind farms in the Markbygden area west of Piteå, Norrbotten county in northern Sweden. The project is expected to be completed by 2025 and might have a capacity of up to 4,000 megawatts (MW) ...
is a series of wind farms in Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County ( sv, Norrbottens län; se, Norrbottena leatna, fi, Norrbottenin lääni) is the northernmost county or ''län'' of Sweden. It is also the largest county by land area, almost a quarter of Sweden's total area. It shares borders ...
, with a future capacity of up to 4 GW.
If built out, the 55 billion kronor (€5.1 billion, US$6.9 billion) project would be the largest wind farm in Europe.
The wind farm would cover some 450 square kilometres, comprising about 1,100 wind turbines, and is expected to produce up to 12 TW·h of electricity per year (i.e. an average power of up to 1.4 GW). , about 1.1 GW had been installed.
In 2021, the Swedish government ordered new transmission to be planned for offshore wind connections.
Controversy
The Association for Swedish Landscape Protection is in opposition to wind power. Their chairman says: At the time of making the statement in 2011, wind power accounted for 4.3% of the electricity in Sweden as listed above. As of 2017 it accounted for 12.4%. Comparing the levelized cost of energy, as of November 2019 wind power was estimated at 28 to 54 USD per MWh, compared to 118 to 192 USD per MWh for nuclear power.See also
* List of wind farms in Sweden *List of offshore wind farms in Sweden
This is a list of operational, offshore wind farms in Sweden (within the national maritime boundaries).
This information is gathered from multiple Internet sources, is a Nordic countries, Nordic c ...
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* List of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea
* Renewable energy in Sweden
* Biofuel in Sweden
* Energy in Sweden
* Renewable energy by country
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References
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SWECO To Manage Wind Power Venture in Northern Sweden
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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 countries, Nordic c ...